Climate change Books

Book SynopsisThis book explains the mechanisms and impacts of global heating, the reasons behind the lack of serious effort to combat climate change, and explores actions that there is still time to take. It is an excellent resource for students and researchers on the climate crisis and current blocks to progress.Trade Review'The Climate Crisis is exceptional for covering the wide range of complex issues involved in climate change. Aron's description of the physical climate system is one of the clearest I've read. He also informs us about impacts, and about the political, economic and psychological obstacles to addressing the crisis. In considering solutions, he draws on both the research literature and the recent efforts of social movements to create change. The Climate Crisis lays the groundwork for thinking carefully about this crucial problem and for taking action.' Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University; author of Decisions for Sustainability: Facts and Values'The Climate Crisis does a great job of connecting the climate science … with the evolving scholarship on how we approach - and could change our approach - to systemic risks and dread of climate change, which is arguably the greatest challenge we face as a species.' Daniel Kammen, University of California, Berkeley; and Former Science Envoy, Department of State in the Obama-Biden Administration'This is a tremendous book on the climate crisis, what it consists of, and why we are finding it so difficult to tackle. The insights on social and psychological dynamics are designed to make it much more than just information: this is a how-to manual on how you can become an effective climate activist and advocate. A perfect book for our difficult times. I have already recommended it to everyone I've met since reading it.' Julia K. Steinberger, University of Lausanne'This book is a tour de force for anyone interested in understanding climate change and how to overcome barriers to action. With unparalleled clarity, Aron explains the history of the climate change debate, the complex psychology of why we have failed to act and what cutting-edge social and behavioral science research has to say about how to engender the large-scale societal change needed to manage the most existential crisis of our time. Aron's new book offers essential reading for anyone interested in the future of our planet.' Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge and former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental PsychologyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The History of Human-Caused Global Heating; 2. Climate Science; 3. Climate Impacts; 4. Capitalism and the Climate Crisis; 5. Skepticism, Misinformation, and Motivated Cognition; 6. Science Communication: Countering Skepticism and Delivering Information Clearly; 7. Elevating Risk Perceptions About Global Heating; 8. Principles for Just and Effective Action; 9. A Technical and Social Framework to Guide Climate Action; 10. Building and Taking Collective Action; Conclusion; Glossary; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisGreenhouse gas (GHG) offsets have long been promoted as an important element of a comprehensive climate policy approach. Offset programs can reduce the overall cost of achieving a given emission goal by enabling emission reductions to occur where costs are lower. Offsets have the potential to deliver sustainability co-benefits, through technology development and transfer. They can also develop human and institutional capacity for reducing emissions in sectors and locations not included in a cap and trade or a mandatory government policy. However, offsets can pose a risk to the environmental integrity of climate actions, especially if issues surrounding additionality, permanence, leakage, quantification and verification are not adequately addressed. The challenge is to design offset programs and policies that can maximize their potential benefits while minimizing their potential risks. This handbook provides a systematic and comprehensive review of existing offset programs. ItTrade Review'The most comprehensive guide available to carbon offset programs around the world.' Derik Broekhoff, Vice President, Policy, Climate Action Reserve 'This handbook is the most comprehensive guide available to carbon offset programs around the world. An invaluable aid for anyone seeking to make sense of the global thicket of offset standards, rules, and systems, both voluntary and regulatory.' Derik Broekhoff, Vice President, Policy, Climate Action Reserve 'This reference work provides a uniquely comprehensive collection of facts and analysis on the numerous offset mechanisms in play across the world. I recommend it to anyone interested in the issue of offsets.' Jean-Jacques Becker, Assistant Director, French Ministry of Energy, Ecology and Sustainable Development 'A must-have resource for state and local policymakers interested in developing offset policies and programs.' Janice Adair, Special Assistant, Washington State Department of Ecology 'SEI is establishing itself as the 'go-to' source for comprehensive, unbiased information about the rapidly changing field of greenhouse gas offsets. This book will be an extremely valuable reference in a field where the lack of reliable data is a continual challenge.' Alexia Kelly, Senior Associate, Climate and Energy Program, World Resources Institute 'A uniquely comprehensive compendium on greenhouse gas offset programs throughout the world. And a wonderful reference for anyone from project developers to treaty negotiators.' Michael Gillenwater, Dean, Greenhouse Gas Management Institute 'This book provides a comprehensive overview of existing greenhouse gas offset programs with a keen eye to issues, options and alternatives. Policy makers, stakeholders and those interested in the development of a comprehensive market for greenhouse gas emission reductions, will find it a useful reference.' Janet Peace, Vice President for Markets and Business Strategy, Pew Center on Global Climate Change 'This book provides an excellent overview of the rules for offsetting projects in different programs around the globe. It should be a definitive reference for anyone who wants to understand the key issues and differences in the various offsetting schemes.' Lambert Schneider, Oeko-InstitutTable of ContentsIntroduction A Comparison of Offset Programs International Offset Mechanisms Offset Features of Cap and Trade Systems Offset Features of Other GHG Systems Greenhouse Gas Accounting Protocols Voluntary GHG Standards Carbon Offset Funds Glossary References

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Book SynopsisOver the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life''s overlords, but we are instead at its mercy. In the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the power of natural selection to create biodiversity, and even the surprising life of the London Underground, Dunn finds laws of life that no human activity can annul. When we create artificial islands of crops, dump toxic waste, or build communities, we provide new materials for old laws to shape. Life''s future flourishing is not in question. Ours is.A Natural History of the Future sets a new standard for understanding the diversity and destiny of life itself.Trade ReviewRob Dunn sketches an arresting vision of this relentless natural world . . . If we want to know what's coming, then, we would be well advised to familiarize ourselves with them, Dunn argues. To that end, his book functions as a helpful crash course in ecology and, as the title implies, an augur of sorts -- The New York Times Book Review[A] lucid discussion . . . Dunn's absorbing analysis advocates making the most of the few certainties we have -- Scientific AmericanEven if we could halt fossil fuel emissions tomorrow, we would still need to make some big changes. Evolutionary biologist Rob Dunn's timely new book . . . is a guide to this complex problem and offers palatable solutions . . . a clear and important read -- Mary Ellen Hannibal, ScienceA stimulating exploration . . . The author avoids the usual implausible how-to-fix-it conclusion . . . Instead, he offers a book that is less doomsday prophecy and more excellent primer on ecology and evolution. An imaginative, sensible education for those concerned with the fate of the Earth -- Kirkus ReviewsA fascinating, shocking, and inspiring guide to the future by one of the most creative and eloquent biologists of our time. Dunn's book is packed full of insight from the latest scientific discoveries about the wonders and troubles of the living Earth -- David George Haskell, author of The Forest UnseenA timely, thought-provoking analysis, delivered in the affable prose that has become Dunn's hallmark -- Thor Hanson, author of Hurricane Lizards and Plastic SquidSpeciations in weird urban habitats, viruses chasing hosts around the globe, and the greatest challenge life on Earth has faced for two million years: this is the fascinating and sobering ecology of the Anthropocene -- Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of KindredFive stars . . . it makes the reader think, and there are some truly fascinating ideas about the way species interact with their environment . . . A useful and timely book -- Brian Clegg, Popular ScienceRob Dunn steers our attention toward the biota under our noses as part of a broader project to explicate the circumstances that prompt new life forms, and adaptive behaviors, to appear . . . The biodiversity and versatility on display in the animal kingdom of which we are part have lots to teach us. To remain at home in the world, we too will need to change -- The Atlantic[Dunn argues] people can help mitigate the effects of climate change by valuing "the rest of life" outside humanity, as well as heeding the lessons that other life has to teach. Thoughtful and accessible, this deserves a wide readership -- Publishers WeeklyIn forecasting future ecology, Dunn enlists biological laws to predict what likely lies ahead for life on our planet, including us . . . Dunn engagingly explains biogeography, inventive intelligence, and speedy evolutionary reaction to changing conditions -- Tony Miksanek, Booklist

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Book SynopsisWe Are At the Edge, Not the End, of HistoryWhy did Russia invade Ukraine? Why have energy costs and inflation been so high? Why is there is there a cost-of-living crisis? Why does the climate crisis keep getting worse? What causes conflict, socio-economic crises, and climate change and what can you do about it, for your family, your business, and your country?Global events, however long their origins, too often seem out of our control and suddenly to transform the world around us. If we want stability, we need to understand the causes, the scale of the challenges, and how we can deliver big enough solutions in time.So many crises are caused by the same problem: competition for coveted resources. The amount of these same resources that we waste is shocking and the impact devastating. Which is why every society, organisation, business, household, and individual must put efficiency first - not just to save money and carbon and improve resilience, but to mitigateTrade ReviewThe statistics in Maxwell's book are stunning. Energy, like food and water, is in increasingly short supply. But for all of these, we waste most of what we are fighting over. -- Edward Lucas, The TimesThe Edge is the only book you need to make sense of the global energy crisis. -- Reader's DigestA very important contribution. One of the huge comparative advantages of this book is the seriousness and knowledge about energy and efficiency. It explains how critical resource efficiency, relating to energy, but also to other scarce resources such as food, water, minerals, and time will be to managing the enormous geopolitical, economic, and environmental challenges in front of all of us today. -- Lord Stern, Chair of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of EconomicsThe Edge is an eloquent roller coaster ride through the unfolding of the modern climate crisis, well informed, up to date and well articulated, a project that keeps one eye on global energy and resource use growth, and one on energy and resource wastage ... an important and urgent book ... -- Dr Andrew Lee, University of Oxford Climate Alumni NetworkFor years we have been told that the most valuable unit of energy is the unit we don't use. But turning that observation into real flows of finance has proven elusive. Jonathan has a clear vision for how to change that - and more than just a vision, he's got the receipts: he's done it, at scale on five continents. -- Michael Liebreich, Founder of Bloomberg NEF and Host of Cleaning Up

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Book SynopsisHow has the climate changed in the past? How is it changing now? How do we know?And what kind of a future do we want to create?Trade Review2071 is better than good: it is necessary * Guardian *An engrossing overview of the most urgent issue of the century * The Times *Pretty essential if you want a sensible overview on what is happening to our planet * Time Out *Urgent and accessible. It's also hard to argue with, and scary. Essential reading ahead of December's key UN Climate Change conference * Evening Standard *

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Book SynopsisHopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can help create the world we need “This is a glorious book that challenges our conceptions of bookmaking as much as it questions our conceptions of world-building. We, as earthlings, will be better to the earth after experiencing this book. That is not hyperbole.” —New York Times bestselling author Kiese LaymonAfterglow is a stunning collection of original short stories in which writers from many different backgrounds envision a radically different climate future. Published in collaboration with Grist, a nonprofit media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions, these stirring tales expand our ability to imagine a better world. Inspired by cutting-edge literary movements, such as Afrofuturism, hopepunk, and solarpunk, Afterglow imagines intersectional worlds in which no one is left behind—where humanity prioritizes equitable climate solutions and continued service to one’s community. Whether through abundance or adaptation, reform, or a new understanding of survival, these stories offer flickers of hope, even joy, as they provide a springboard for exploring how fiction can help create a better reality. Afterglow welcomes a diverse range of new voices into the climate conversation to envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress. A creative work rooted in the realities of our present crisis, Afterglow presents a new way to think about the climate emergency—one that blazes a path to a clean, green, and more just future.Trade ReviewPraise for Afterglow:“[Afterglow] approaches climate change with hope for the radically different futures humans might create.”—The New York Times Book Review"This short story collection radiates radical imagination. . . . If you’re feeling bouts of climate anxiety or even apocalypse fatigue, Afterglow will remind you to keep the faith."—Sierra magazine“The twelve stories in the anthology Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors . . . take readers into the future and across the globe to witness how humanity has persevered in the face of climate-crisis-induced destruction.”—ZYZZYVA“This sparkling anthology of 12 climate fiction stories distinguishes itself with its hopeful bent. . . . Offering a glimpse at imagined futures across the globe, this is a welcome lift to the spirits to those who may be struggling to see any brightness amid climate fears.”—Publishers Weekly“The art of storytelling is not only an act of memory and imagination, but one of hope and faith. These vivid and provocative stories represent a dreaming, a collective vision of future worlds where humanity has gathered itself, shared resources and wisdom, to arrive at a place of intentional action, health, and thriving. It is no small feat on the page or beyond to engage in such brave work. The tales of Afterglow offer the glimmers of possibility, the hard choices to be made, and the radiance of worlds not yet known but deeply needed.”—Sheree Renée Thomas, author of Black Panther: Panther’s Rage and Nine Bar Blues“Ultimately, I hope these stories reveal how our imaginations can help build a better reality—not only to serve as a guiding light, but to serve as a balm for these current, difficult times.”—Morgan Jerkins, bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing

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Book SynopsisThere is no planet B. Activists share how we must inform and organize ourselves to save the future. “Act as though your house is on fire. Because it is.” Following Greta Thunberg, millions of young climate activists have been taking to the streets around the globe as part of the Fridays For Future movement. They demand that we “unite behind the science,” as, for too long, climate scientists have been ringing the alarm bells about rising temperatures, tipping points, and the devastating consequences of extreme weather—but politicians do nothing. So how do you begin to end the climate crisis? Luisa Neubauer and Alexander Repenning begin by telling stories. Neubauer cofounded the youth climate activist group in Germany and has become its most prominent voice. In this book she and Repenning weave in personal accounts of their evolution as climate activists with a thorough analysis of how climate change impacts their generation, and what every one of us can and must do about it. The young and old in the United States and around the world can learn valuable lessons from their European counterparts. Trade Review“Beginning to End the Climate Crisis acknowledges the challenge of affecting long-term change, but says that it’s important to keep trying.” * Foreword Reviews *“The book covers a lot of ground, initially expressing powerfully the injustice that younger generations feel, as their future is stolen. But beyond lamenting the crisis, Luisa and Alex propose steps toward meeting the challenge. From institutionalizing responsibility to creating clear communication, rethinking economic systems, redefining the good life, addressing justice issues, getting educated, imagining a positive future, and getting organized, they challenge the reader to participate.” * Elders Climate Action Massachusetts’s newsletter *“In a time where climate disaster is taking hold all over the world, this book is needed now more than ever. This book strikes the balance between not sugar coating the climate crisis, but also providing hope in the form of action.” -- Jamie Sarai Margolin, Zero Hour founder and author of Youth to Power“Luisa and Alex remind us across generations, to unflinchingly take responsibility and face the future together. Read this book. Learn where we have been and where we can and we must go.” -- Harriet Shugarman, award-winning author, university professor, climate educator, policy analyst, and climate activist“The young have every right to say to us: how could you fail us like this? Luisa and Alex sing a new song and we all have to sing it with them.” -- Cornelia Funke, author of the Dragon Rider series and othersTable of ContentsForewordNote from the Translator Preface to the English EditionIntroduction?Alarmism? Hamburg 2050?What Does the Science Say??Let’s Stop Making the Same Mistakes Over and Over Again?We Are Possibilists?An Invitation1 Our Future is a Dystopia?The Future Is No Longer a Promise?Our Lives in a Multi-Optional World?We Are Part of the Problem?Nauru - The Canary in the Coalmine2 Because You Are Stealing Our Future?A Scientifically-Founded Fear of the Future ?This Crisis Could Have Been Prevented?Not a Brave New World as We Like It?A Global Question and a Globalized Generation?Humanity Has a Deadline?Who is Stealing Our Future??The First Steps of a Marathon3 We Lack a Utopia?The End of History??No Planet B?Lack of Imagination?An Apollo-Project to Combat the Climate Crisis4 The Climate Crisis is Not an Individual Crisis?The Luxury of Riding a Bicycle?Green Guilt?Shifting Baselines5 The Climate Crisis is a Crisis of Responsibility?Demanding Responsibility for the Future?The Parable of Mourning the Future?Institutionalizing Responsibility for the Future 6 The Climate Crisis is a Crisis of Communication?This is Your Crisis, Too?A Problem of Vividness??Frames Instead of Facts?Calculated Uncertainty?Beyond Our Imagination?The Climate of the Media?How Do We Get Out of It?7 The Climate Crisis is a Crisis of Fossil Capitalism?The Fateful Belief in the Market?A Price Tag on Nature is Supposed to Save Us. Seriously??The First Time as Tragedy, the Second Time as Farce8 The Climate Crisis is a Crisis of Prosperity?But We Are Doing So Well, Aren’t We??We Are Living at the Expense of Others?Voluntary Self-Deprivileging?Donut for Future?The ‘Good Life’ as a Constitutional Goal??For a Green New Deal9 The Climate Crisis is a Crisis of Justice ?The Price of Fossil Prosperity?Intergenerational Justice?Carbon Justice?A Sexist Crisis?Who is Being Held Accountable??The New Social Question?10 Educate Yourselves!?The Gap Between Knowledge, Perception, and Action1.Educate Yourselves about How to Educate Others2.Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth3.Educate (Yourselves) about the Beginning of the End4.Become Multipliers5.Educate Yourselves about Each Other11 Start Dreaming!1.Moral Stretching Exercises2.Looking Back from the Dystopian Future3.Imagine!4.Think Utopian12 Get Organized!?Sorry, I Don’t Have Time to Protest?Why Organize??3.5 Percent1.Discover the Why2.Get Over Your Astonishment3.Team Up and Look Out for Each Other4.Copy from Each Other5.Come to Stay6.Make Demands of Those Around YouEpilogueAcknowledgements

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Book SynopsisI know of no one better qualified to understand what young people are facing today - Philippa Perry There are epidemic rates of ADHD, depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicide in young people. The conventional medical model wants to put a plaster on the problems with medication and CBT, but we, as parents, need to dig deeper. We need to face the fact that it is not our child''s fault, but the world we are bringing them up in and that we play a key role in how they see this world. Bringing together years of work helping children and the child inside us all, acclaimed psychotherapist, Louis Weinstock, will show us how. Split into two parts, and blending mindfulness, meditation and visualisation, we are taken on a journey that starts with exploring our own fears and weaknesses, and ends joyfully in practical ways we can help build confidence, courage and authentic hope about the future in our children. The power lies within each of us to create with,

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Book Synopsis"INFORMATIVE AND ORIGINAL" Guardian, 'This month's best paperbacks' We've become used to thinking of plants as things for us to use: as food, tools, resources, or just as an attractive background to our own lives. But it's time to change our minds. New research shows that plants can think, plan - and may even have memories. We share our planet with beings whose potential we have only glimpsed. Featuring the writing of Robin Wall Kimmerer, Susie Orbach and Merlin Sheldrake, This Book is a Plant will be your handbook to the new reality: showing you a pathway to completely reimagine your relationship with a different kind of natural world. Delve into a world of moss and fungi: Sheila Watt-Cloutier transports us to the Arctic spring, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan discovers the pleasures of painting trees, and Rebecca Tamás puts roots down through earth and soil. This Book is a Plant is made from paper: it was once part of a tree. But it's also a seed: the first shoots of a radical new way of seeing the world around you. "AN ECLECTIC ANTHOLOGY GUARANTEED TO MAKE THE HEARTS OF EARTH LOVERS BEAT FASTER" MetroTrade ReviewThis informative and original anthology ... challenge[s] conventional ideas about plant life and especially the Western world's exploitative attitude towards nature. * Guardian, 'This month's best paperbacks' *An eclectic anthology guaranteed to make the hearts of earth lovers beat faster * Metro *

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Book SynopsisWith the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western mode of production and living. The logic of liberal markets since the 19thCentury, and especially since World War II, has been inscribed into everyday practices that are usually unconsciously reproduced. The authors show that they are a main driver of the ecological crisis and economic and political instability.The Imperial Mode of Living implies that people's everyday practices, including individual and societal orientations, as well as identities, rely heavily on the unlimited appropriation of resources; a disproportionate claim on global and local ecosystems and sinks; and cheap labour from elsewhere. This availability of commodities is largely organised through the world market, backed by military force and/or the asymmetric relations of forces as they have been inscribed in international institutions. Moreover, the Imperial Mode of Living implies asymmetrical social relations along class, gender and race within the respective countries. Here too, it is driven by the capitalist accumulation imperative, growth-oriented state policies and status consumption. The concrete production conditions of commodities are rendered invisible in the places where the commodities are consumed. The imperialist world order is normalized through the mode of production and living.Trade ReviewThe highly readable book by Brand and Wissen exposes an internal contradiction fraught with consequences: the imperial mode of living undermines its own operating conditions. Currently, the dominant reaction to this fact consists of desperate attempts to secure the exclusivity of this mode of living even under altered conditions. -- Stephan Lessenich * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *The facts of the "imperial mode of living" are nothing new. The merit of the authors lies in showing its related problems broadly, well founded in theory and substantiated by empirical material. -- Joachim Hirsch * Frankfurter Rundschau *To fight the ecological crisis, the realm of political economics ought to be included as well, because it would clearly show the problems with the global North's globalised norms of production and consumption. -- Jutta Bichl, Paolo Freire Zentrum, AustriaDeveloping a counter-hegemony to the imperial mode of living would mean articulating both structural and everyday alternatives. Brand and Wissen call for seeking out confrontation with the elites in contested societal (nature) relations and countering the imperial mode of living with a solidary one. -- Evelyn Linde * analyse & kritik *Empathy for the worries of people who are situated well above average on a global scale, but are increasingly unsettled in their sphere of life, would be needed for the transformation-oriented left, if it were to take a hegemonic project seriously. -- Andreas Novy * Austrian Journal of Political Science *An explosive book that not only helps in understanding the multiple crises of our times, but also shows approaches for overcoming them. -- Knut Henkel * die tageszeitung *The book shows that a sound analysis of society is not an academic end it itself but has a high relevance for the political discourse. -- Bernd Sommer * GAIA *Using the term "mode of living", the authors succeed in defining the embedding of global power relations in the everyday actions of people in the North without raising moral accusations. [.] The imperial mode of living has the hallmarks of compulsion, but at the same time enables, creates conveniences and expands scopes of action. While it can be sustained only for the price of intensifying economic and ecological crises, it contributes to the stabilization of the societies of the North, including their injustices, and remains attractive for those excluded, whose hope is not pinned on overcoming the imperial conditions, but on participating in the exclusive privileges. -- Gerd Schoppengerd * express *Brand/Wissen conceive the term "mode of living" [...] as a category of systematic connections between action and structure. The term connects the analysis of the everyday practices people use to reproduce social conditions to a critique of social structures that make just these practices appear to be the conditions for a good life [...]. Norms for modes of production and consumption are embedded in these practices just as much as are forms of state regulation that arose from social conflicts. In other words, the imperial mode of living forms part of a hegemonic combination that does not confront the social actors as something external but constitutes them as subjects and conveys a capacity for action to them, which they adopt and reproduce in their everyday practices. -- Jörg Reitzig * Politikum *With their effort to start with the daily normality of the imperial mode of living, Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen managed an important strike, especially in the political realm. -- Klaus Dörre * Sozialismus *If you want to understand the multiple crises of our times and are searching for answers, you must read this book. It is an exceptional proof of the practical value of political science. -- Gerhard Klas * Südwestrundfunk. Die Buchkritik *An essential political read for our times. Spelling out the brutal contradictions of the 'imperial mode of living' and its 'green economy', Brand and Wissen invite the reader to consider a 'solidary mode of living'. Here, sociability and sustainability can be joined, and hopefully celebrate the rich plurality of global cultures. -- Ariel SallehThis lucid articulation of 'the imperial mode of living' as a pathbreaking concept, helps us to better understand the continuing neo-colonial relations of production and consumption between the Global North and South. It shows their devastating social and ecological consequences, and why 'green economy' like approaches will not save us and the planet. Rather, systemic, fundamental alternatives are needed, and this book brilliantly demonstrates why. -- Ashish KothariProudly wearing the cloaks of what they call revolutionary Realpolitik and radical reformism, Brand and Wissen offer both a bracing and radical assessment of the current ecological crisis and a roadmap of the pathways from fossil capitalism. The imperial model of living saturates everyday life resting upon the unlimited appropriation of resources, a disproportionate claim to global and local ecosystems and sinks and cheap labor from elsewhere. Yet the concrete production conditions of consumed commodities and their environmental destructiveness in the Global North and South alike are typically invisible, rarely crossing into critical reflection. The Imperial Mode of Living offers a brilliant analysis of how and why this sense of normality is produced in a time of multiple and overlapping crises, and how such a mode of living simultaneously creates these crises and stabilizes social relations in the countries where its benefits are concentrated. A tour de force. -- Michael Watts, University of California, BerkeleyThe Imperial Mode of Living introduces a much needed addition to our understanding of imperialism by looking at the ways in which global structures of imperial domination, extraction, and production have created consuming classes with imperial lifestyles that threaten the ecological survival of the planet. It also helps make sense of the new phase of imperial domination and extraction of the global South through engendering consuming classes in both the global North and South. By making visible the taken-for-granted daily practices of consumption and production and linking them to imperial structures, Brand and Wissen have produced an indispensable contribution. -- Michelle Williams, Professor of Sociology and Chairperson of the Global Labour University Programme, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South AfricaBrand and Wissen assert that it will only be possible to overcome the destructive global imperial mode of living by changing the current ways of working and of consumption, and by putting solidarity into practice across society. The German-language publication of the book garnered a discussion that was both broad and intensive, precisely because the authors insist on the need to rethink social transformation beyond hitherto concepts of reform or revolution. -- Joachim Hirsch, Goethe University, Frankfurt/M.The Imperial Mode of Living is a very enlightening and also useful conceptual tool to connect the mainstream essentialist criticism of capitalism and a critical analysis of the everyday life of people within it. With the help of it, we can have a better understanding of the political and economic dynamics of contemporary capitalism, a globalized as well as 'universalized' system or hegemonic mode of living, which constitutes a great challenge for the emerging global Green-left politics. -- Qingzhi Huan, Beijing UniversityThis book vividly illuminates what imperialism means today, elucidating the deep structures of social and ecological injustice on which prosperity is currently premised. Eschewing simple moral appeals, the book superbly threads together the cultural and economic forces that make the richer parts of the world feel comfortable with the status quo. Brand and Wissen lay the groundwork for a much-needed shift in the cross-border conversation over alternatives. -- Emma Dowling, author of The Care Crisis (2021)The Imperial Mode of Living is a powerful contribution to the Left's strategic debates worldwide. Its bold and controversial thesis on the everyday implications of global economic and ecological inequality deserves to be discussed widely. -- Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, AmsterdamA pathbreaking thesis - and a truly essential reading for making sense of the 'global constellations of power' that shape the world we live in. Looking at the socio-ecological contradictions of Western societies from the perspective of their manufactured elsewhere, and the normalized violence of extractive relations - this book magisterially complements the tradition of anti-imperialist, 'revolutionary Realpolitik' (Rosa Luxemburg). -- Stefania Barca, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, PortugalComing out of the Corona virus crisis, there has to be a radical transformation in the way that we live. This book is an excellent way into the discussion of the mode of living that is destroying the earth. A solidary mode of living or authoritarian neo-liberal corona capitalism: that, the authors suggest, is the choice we face. No debate could be more important. -- John HollowayIn the tradition of debates about imperialism, this book emphasizes its effects on the crucial level of everyday life and, more broadly, interrogates what constitutes our modes of living today. Bringing together consumption, extractivism and production, Brand and Wissen provide an updated reading and multilevel map not only of capitalist exploitation, but also of the underlying political elements behind migration, the rise of the right and the urgent need to rethink class and ecology from the point of view of social reproduction. Through the notion of themode of living as a constellation of elements, this book is a renewal of anti-imperialist theory. -- Verónica Gago, Universidad de Buenos AiresAn accessible and deep examination of imperialism's historical and present construction of a global economy designed to not only dominate the peoples and nations outside the capitalist core, but also to keep that economy's ecological destructiveness in those nations, too. -- Ron Jacobs * CounterPunch *In her great work of 1913, Rosa Luxemburg had shown that the accumulation of capital is only possible if there is an outside that enables the preservation and development of the inner core of the capitalist mode of production. Inevitably capitalism is an imperial order. Ulrich Brand and Markus Wissen link this insight of Luxemburg to the fact that the mode of living, including desires, everyday production and consumption patterns such as mobility in the centers of modern capitalism are also imperial. They describe the strategy for an alternative of a solidary mode of living, the emergence of which requires nothing less than a new Great Transformation beyond capitalism. -- Michael Brie, Head of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Rosa-Luxemburg-StiftungThis book is a must read, particularly poignant for scholar working on consumption and sustainability. The concept of an 'imperial mode of living' captures the idea that power relations permeate both everyday life, and political as well as economic spheres. Mundane and routine practices, performed without much reflexivity - such as driving a car or preparing a meal - reveal broader social inequalities and forms of environmental deterioration that become normalized, accepted, even respected, and thus difficult to change. From describing the problem and introducing the concept, the authors then lead us down a promising avenue: that of solidarity and social learning. Such measures are not the sole remit of heroic individuals, however, they require multiple and perhaps messy collective action. Because...Ya basta! -- Marlyne Sahakian, University of GenevaA book for these times ... The Imperial Mode of Living not only offers a novel grasp of the links of everyday life to crises and inequalities on a global scale, but it also takes a stand for the necessity of politics from below. -- Stefan Schoppengerd * LSE Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisThe two volumes bring together the contributions of the members of the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP), to a project launched in 2017, with the support of the International Academic Union (UAI), under the title Human societies facing climate change in prehistory and protohistory : from the origins of Humanity to the beginning of historical times. The second volume concerns protohistory, from the beginning of the Holocene to historical times. In what climate and at what latitudes have the innovations represented by farming and animal husbandry succeeded in sustaining themselves? How did agro-pastoral societies adapt to the progression of Holocene aridity after the exceptional wet period at its beginning? Is nomadic pastoralism a specialization of an agro-pastoral society in the context of increasing aridity and/or an adaptation of animal domestication to steppe and semi-desert areas? How have agro-pastoral societies adapted to multi-century periods of climate change such as those known from protohistoric and historical periods (the crises of 8200 BP, 4200 BP, 1200 BC and 800 BC; the Roman climate optimum; the crisis of the Later Roman Empire and barbarian invasions; the medieval climate optimum; the Little Ice Age)? And how did they survive episodes of adverse weather lasting several years that caused scarcity and famine?Table of ContentsPréface ; Introduction au deuxième volume : Homme et Climat – François Djindjian ; Extinctions animales et changements climatiques au quaternaire – François Djindjian ; The last prehistoric hunters in Europe – Stefan Karol Kozłowski ; Challenges in evaluating the role of the environment in neolithization processes. The case of South-East Europe – Marek Nowak ; Hiatus et recompoitions culturelles dans le neolithique mediterraneen: le climat en cause? – Jean Guilaine ; Cultural adaptations in Libya From Upper Pleistocene to early holocene – Chronology and Stratigraphy from littoral to desert – Barbara E. Barich ; Le rôle du Sahara dans l’évolution humaine en périodes humides, lorsqu’il n’était pas un désert – Miguel Caparros ; Le Tilemsi et ses abords de la préhistoire à nos jours – Christian Dupuy ; Troupeaux Holocène au Sahara – Barbara E. Barich ; L’évènement climatique 4.2 ka BP et la transition du Néolithique à l’âge du Bronze dans le Sud-est de la France dans son context euro-méditerranéen – Olivier Lemercier ; Climat et sociétés à l’âge du Bronze en Europe occidentale – Cyril Marcigny ; Climat et société à l’âge du Fer – Olivier Buchsenschutz ; Discussion et conclusions sur les sociétés humaines face aux changements climatiques des premiers 9000 ans de l’Holocène – François Djindjian

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Book SynopsisSea Sagas of the North interweaves prose chapters and alliterative sagas. Each chapter tells of travels across shores, seas and islands. This is the territory of sagas, the Norse and Anglo-Saxon gods of old, and the mythic era of Viking expansion by clinkered longships. It was when dragons protected people from themselves by hiding gold and silver hoards. There are shadows on the warming, northern seas. Long ago, refugees fled Doggerland when seas encroached. Now rising seas threaten the low-lying shores once again.Jules Pretty tells moving stories from Iceland, Norway?s Lofoten islands, Denmark, eastern England, Lindisfarne, Shetland, St Kilda and the Faroes. His touching tales weave a rich cultural tapestry from sagas, the heroic cliff rescues of deep-water fishermen by Icelanders, how Vikings and sheep left so few trees, the miraculous escape of Danish Jews to Sweden from Denmark in 1943, the rise of Abbess Hildr of Whitby, the enslaved Grimsby orphan boys and life on Doggerland itself. He asks how can we live wisely and well with nature and each other as the fire and flood of Ragnarok looms. Maps, glossary of Norse Gods, timeline, brief notes on walks connected with each chapter, stories, chapter notes and bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe Green Lunch Box is packed with delicious, healthy, plant-based lunches to help you save the planet in your lunch break.Making your own lunch just a few times a week saves money, packaging and precious time. Discover simple, short recipes for hot boxes, soups, salads, wraps and snacks that make the most of your everyday fresh and store cupboard ingredients. Learn to love your leftovers, master the art of batch cooking and discover ingenious sustainable ways to pack (and eat) your lunch.Features sixty beautifully illustrated recipes, including: Smashed beets and rainbow salad with hazelnut dukkha,Burrito box with charred sweetcorn, avocado, habanero peppers and lime salsa,Black lentil, almond and coconut dahl with crispy cumin cauliflower,Courgette, carrot, apple and lime slaw with toasted pumpkin seeds,Spicy parsnip soup with crispy harissa chickpeas,Peanut butter, lime, chilli and rocket bagel,Mushroom, white bean, miso and leek parcels

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What does it mean to regard a glacier as a neighbor to learn from and defend? A glacier as both a window and a mirror? This outrageous book, rich with revelation and stewardship, is, at its deepest level, an icy blue love story to make us reconsider what it means to be fully alive -- and open to wonder -- in our ever-changing world. Bravo, M. Jackson." Kim Heacox , author of John Muir and the Ice that Started a Fire"When it comes to glaciers, Dr. M Jackson is a linguistic sorcerer, making you fall in love by proxy with the geological memory-keepers. . . . Jackson's text moves with historical and scientific precision . . . Glaciers speak to our future just as much as we speak to theirs, and M Jackson's epic examination of their place in humanity's story is compelling." Excerpt from starred review from Foreword Reviews"M Jackson brings a powerful combination of skills to bear in her ambitious task of complicating our understanding of the rapidly dwindling masses of ice with which we share this planet. Blending hands-on science, vivid descriptive writing, affecting personal anecdote, and insightful cultural observation, The Secret Lives of Glaciers is a hypnotic and inspiring bookessential reading for anyone who loves nature and is concerned about the human species' continued existence within it." Tim Weed , author, A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing"M Jackson is a master storyteller, weaving evocative anecdotes and historical and scientific narratives into an intricate dance of the relationship between man and ice. Jackson writes eloquently, her stories of the real, concrete effects of climate change on the people of Iceland both informative and heart-wrenching." Dr. Michele Koppes , Glaciologist & Geographer" The Secret Lives of Glaciers engulfs you from the very first page, and in that way does due justice to the colossal yet fragile icy protagonist it intends to uncover for its readers." - Asher Jay , Conservationist & National Geographic Explorer

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Book Synopsis In this global gardener’s guide to creating a resilient, climate-wise garden, learn how to adapt your garden to cope with volatile weather extremes and other effects of a rapidly changing climate.It’s no longer gardening as usual. Heat waves, droughts, flooding, violent storms…the long-predicted extremes of weather caused by climate change are now on our doorstep, and gardeners around the world are feeling the effects. Certain pests are staying active until much later in the season, many plants are blooming earlier, soils are eroding and degrading at a rapid pace, unpredictable rainfall is water-logging our gardens, and fiercer storms are uprooting trees and snapping branches. Not to mention the effects of prolonged drought in many parts of the world and the water rationing that comes with it. What’s a gardener to do?We need to learn how to protect the garden against climate extremes, exotic pests, invasive weeds, and more<Trade Review“With the climate emergency, ‘gardening as usual’ no longer applies and we need to learn how to adapt to prolonged droughts, intense storms, and wildly fluctuating temperatures. The Climate Change Garden is the in-depth guide you need to learn how to manage climate extremes and build resilient gardens.” -- Niki Jabbour, author of The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener and Growing Under Cover“This timely and essential guide will help gardeners implement key changes to increase the resiliency of their landscapes. The authors offer both pragmatic and creative approaches to address the challenges we are already experiencing and provide a wealth of actionable items to help us adjust our gardening traditions.” -- Susan Mulvihill, author of The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook and The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook“I love this book. It’s the savvy guide to future proofing your garden against the increasing extremes of weather through climate change.” -- Frances Tophill, Gardeners’ World presenter and author of Rewild Your GardenTable of ContentsForeword: Why It’s No Longer Gardening as Usual Introduction: A Taste of Things to Come? Chapter 1: Too Much Water Chapter 2: Heat and Drought Chapter 3: Wind, Frost, and Snow Chapter 4: Healthy Soil Chapter 5: Design Ideas Chapter 6: Working with Wildlife Chapter 7: Pests, Diseases, and Aliens Chapter 8: The Vegetable Garden Chapter 9: In the Orchard Chapter 10: Trees for the Future Chapter 11: The Flower Garden About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisA key point in the book is the need to focus more seriously at the energy problem as the real problem behind global warming. The failure of global climate policies to reduce CO2 emissions and halt climate change has led an increasing number of scientist and activists to lose confidence in democracy's ability to handle climate change and led them to look to more authoritarian measures to meet the problem. The book documents these trends, also from a historical perspective, criticize them and sketches more democratic alternatives.Table of ContentsPART I. The climate threat and democracyChapter 1. The point of departure A global failure A gloomy picture Will we have to discard democracy to save the world? My point of departure What about the precautionary principle? Democracy The two sides of the climate problem Chapter 2. The climate problem and climate policy The mechanisms behind global warming Global warming versus climate An example: “We have only 12 years” What does the IPCC say? Climate policy A wicked problem From Rio via Kyoto to Paris A failing model Goal management of the global temperature The global strategy and the frustration with democracy Part II. Antidemocratic threats Chapter 3. The antidemocratic heritage and the dream about “Eco dictatorship” Historical roots – society as a threat against nature The ecological heritage of the environmental movement The extreme to the right – eco fascism Eco fascism to-day Chapter 4. The current climate debate and the threat to democracy The deep-ecology roots of the current climate debate Anti-democratic activism The vision of the expert-governed meritocracy Climate change as a threat against free debate and critical research Critique of the antidemocratic answer to the climate problem Are authoritarian regimes doing better? Is an authoritarian climate coup likely? Chapter 5. Popular climate uproar and the undermining of democracy The car-based society Climate uproar to “save the climate” The road toll uproar The ferry uproar The wind power uproar The popular uproar against climate hysteria Unrealistic climate goals and the undermining of democracy The problem with the person-focused climate policy The polarized climate debate and the undermining of democracy Chapter 6. The “non-political” solution of the climate problem What is climate engineering A global heatshield Historical retrospect A problematic strategy The search for knowledge The democratic problem PART III. DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVES Chapter 7. A wicked problem The crisis strategy Why do climate policies become so conflict-ridden? A little bit of theory The theory and climate policies – wind power as an example About theory and practice Lenin and Thunberg or Brox (for info: Brox is a Norwegian professor) About future generations About eating an elephant Chapter 8. Contributions to democratic answers to the climate problem About taking bites of the elephant Carbon tax rather that emission quotas Green growth A green New Deal What about nuclear power? Finally, some points about adapting to a changing climate No “quick fix” Chapter 9. The dream about Paradise About recreating Paradise Forward towards the past Paradise lost The climate problem, democracy and defence of the open society References Notes Keywords

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Book SynopsisLeadership for the Great Transitiona changemaker's toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilienceThe Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring changemakers to step into their full power at this time of unprecedented global crisis.By introducing readers to a different kind of activism based on universal patterns of Transformation, Expansion, Wholeness, and Balance it points the way to a truly just and regenerative future.Drawing on author Don Hall's experience as a leader in the international Transition Towns Movement as well as the work of dozens of regenerative thinkers and doers across many fields, including ecology, psychology, sociology, organizational development, and systems thinking this book will help you: Better understand our current environmental, economic, and social polycrisis Develop a holistic and inspiring vision for the future Cultivate the confidence to lead and strengthen inner resilience Work effectively in collaborative groups and organizations Reach beyond the choir to engage people from all walks of life Design and implement practical projects that foster sustainability and justice While none of us can change the world alone, we all have an important part to play in the Great Transition. By starting wherever we are and leaning into this historic challenge, we'll discover our deepest purpose, realize our highest potential, and learn how to harness the power of regeneration to radically transform our lives, our communities, and our world.AWARDSFINALIST 2025 International Book Awards: Nonfiction - Inspirational

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Book SynopsisHow would you survive on a planet that doesn''t spin?An awe-inspiring Planetary Romance from Terry Pratchett''s co-author on the Long Earth BooksThe very far future: The Galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous Galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light ...The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red dwarf star, is the nearest star to our sun - and (in this fiction), the nearest to host a world, Proxima IV, habitable by humans. But Proxima IV is unlike Earth in many ways. Huddling close to the warmth, orbiting in weeks, it keeps one face to its parent star at all times. The ''substellar point'', wit

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Book Synopsis''Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? The Story of More is thoughtful, informative and - above all - essential'' Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth ExtinctionHope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, an inspiring teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, Jahren illuminates the link between human consumption habits and our imperiled planet. In short, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions - from electric power to large-scale farming and automobiles - that, even as they help us, release untenable amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases - from superstorms to rising sea levels - and the actions that all of us can take to fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of warmiTrade ReviewA superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years, written in a brilliantly sardonic and conversational style -- E. O. WilsonHope Jahren is an awesome writer and scientist. Her new book, The Story of More, is captivating and compelling. She urges readers to be courageous dealing with global environmental changes and human population growthHope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet? The Story of More is thoughtful, informative and - above all - essentialA concise and personal yet universally applicable examination of a problem that affects everyone on planet Earth . . . [Jahren] doesn't use scare tactics or shrill warnings . . . She clearly shows how the amount of waste created by the privileged could provide plenty for those less privileged * Kirkus Reviews *Hope Jahren's compelling book uses statistics brilliantly to provoke self-examination. In sections on 'Life', 'Food', 'Energy' and 'Earth', it illuminates subjects from population growth to melting glaciers * Nature *

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Book SynopsisIntelligent laypersons are bewildered when faced with the complexity of climate change. Economics can give them a powerful tool to think clearly about the problem and to make up their own mind. The new-generation economics models are painting a radically different and exciting picture of the best course of climate action.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The facts on the ground; 3. Deep changes; 4. How economists think about climate change; 5. How economists look at choice; 6. How utility theory works; 7. From choice to utility; 8. What are integrated assessment models?; 9. How much should we care about future generations? 10. Growth; 11. Population; 12. So, what should we do? 13. Taking the dirty stuff out; 14 The role of nuclear energy; 15. Constraints; 16. The plumbing; 17. Unfinished business.

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Book SynopsisTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG'One of the most inspiring books I have ever read' YUVAL NOAH HARARI'Inspirational, compassionate and clear. The time to read this is NOW' MARK RUFFALO'Figueres and Rivett-Carnac dare to tell us how our response can create a better, fairer world' NAOMI KLEIN*****Discover why there's hope for the planet and how we can each make a difference in the climate crisis, starting today. Humanity is not doomed, and we can and will survive. The future is ours to create: it will be shaped by who we choose to be in the coming years. The coming decade is a turning point - it is time to turn from indifference or despair and towards a stubborn, determined optimism. The Future We Choose is a passionate call to arms from former UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, and Tom Rivett-Carnac, senior political strategist for the Paris Agreement.Practical, optimistic and empowering, The Future We Choose shows us steps we can all take to renew our planet and create a better world beyond the climate crisis: today, tomorrow, this year and in the coming decade. The time to act is now. This book will change the way you see the world, and your place in it. Trade ReviewWe are at a critical moment for the survival of humans and the rest of life on Earth. In The Future We Choose, Figueres and Rivett-Carnac explain what we can do to safeguard our world. This book presents what we must do to protect our shared future - your own, and that of everyone on this planet * Leonardo DiCaprio *A call to arms for the battle of our time. * Arnold Schwarzenegger *There could not be a more important book. * Richard Branson *Full of heart, strength and solutions... I will carry it with me everywhere. * Ellie Goulding *Compelling and persuasive. Everyone can make a difference when it comes to climate change, but far too often most of us end up feeling that the things we do are not going to be enough to solve the problem: it just seems so overwhelming. After you've read this book it will be very difficult to ever feel like that again! * Stella McCartney *This book is what the moment demands: a handbook for climate action and optimism. Read it and act. * Ed Miliband *This book could not be more timely or important. * David Miliband, CEO, IRC & Former Foreign Secretary *I urge everyone to read it and heed its message. * Ban Ki-moon *The Paris Agreement was a landmark for humanity. In this timely and important book, two of the principle creators of that agreement show us why and how we can now realise its' promise. I hope it is widely read and acted on * Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace *I strongly recommend this enlightening book! The next few years are the most important in humanity's fight to solve the climate crisis. In The Future We Choose, Christiana and Tom show us what's to come, how to face it, and what can be done to make the right choice to save our planet for future generations. * Al Gore *Inspirational, compassionate and clear. The time to read this is NOW -- Mark RuffaloPlease read it! -- Gisele BündchenEveryone should read this book -- Matt HaigFigueres and Rivett-Carnac dare to tell us how our response can create a better, fairer world. -- Naomi KleinOne of the most inspiring books I have ever read -- Yuval Noah HarariEnough of wake up calls - this book is what to do when you have woken up. -- William HaguePractical and inspiring -- Lord Nicholas SternUrges us all forward and helps us know we can make a difference -- Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director, Greenpeace InternationalProtecting the environment is logical as much as ecological -- Bertrand Piccard, Pilot, Solar ImpulseRead this book. -- Michael Mann, Climate ScientistA powerful warning and helpful guidebook for us all -- Chris Anderson, Head of TEDChristiana and Tom give us hope! * Jesper Brodin, CEO, IKEA Group *An inspiring call to arms, a must read. -- Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, 2009–2013We can lead the way towards a healthier and more sustainable future. This is the first book that explains how. -- Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of ParisAn important book. Readable, inspiring, with a road map to hope. -- Tim Smit, The Eden ProjectA fine volume! -- Bill McKibbenA powerful, compassionate call to arms. * Julian Hector, Head of the BBC Natural History Unit *This could be the most important wake up call of our time. -- Professor Klaus Schwab, CEO, World Economic ForumEncourage everyone to read and react. -- Oliver Bäte, CEO, AllianzA further valuable contribution to the debate -- Ben van Beurden, CEO, Shell

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Book SynopsisBuild your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right levelWhat is a carbon footprint? Why do we think that the climate is changing? How does climate change affect our lives? And most important of all, what can we do about it? In partnership with the children's charity Plan, this book explores the topical issue of Climate Change and what it means through the experiences of children around the world.Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.Text type: A non-chronological report.A spider diagram on pages 30-31 help children to quickly identioy and recap the action points for each country covered in the book.Additional information retrieval devices such as a glossary and index can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop critical reading skills.Curriculum links: Georgraphy: Passpaort to the world, Weather around the world; Science: Characteristics of materials.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Rea

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Book SynopsisA BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekA subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!' Bill McKibbenI learned something new and found something amazing on every page' Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot SeeFrom Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth comes an urgent and riveting history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them threatens the planet.Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence of their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit and the consequent release of their stored carbon. Wide-ranging and idiosyncratic, Proulx's explanation of wetlands takes readers to the fens of sixteenth-century England, Canada's Hudson Bay Lowlands, Russia's Great Vasyugan Mire and America's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and introduces the nineteenth-century explTrade Review‘So often feared, dredged and drained, swamps, bogs and fens (it turns out) are just as vital to our species’ survival on this planet as healthy forests and oceans – perhaps more so. Proulx has written a moving elegy and cri de coeur for our world’s wetlands. I learned something new – and found something amazing – on every page’ Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See ‘Talk about seeing the whole world through a single well-chosen window! Annie Proulx is, as ever, remarkable – her mind, her heart and her learning take us on an unforgettable and unflinching tour of past and present, fixed on a subject that could not be more important. A compact classic!’ Bill McKibben ‘Annie Proulx has brought nature full circle in her short history, Fen, Bog, and Swamp … We must understand and restore these vital ecosystems to protect our future’ Diana Beresford-Kroeger, author of To Speak for the Trees ‘Proulx wants us to see the loss of wetlands – and to appreciate the beauty in these swampy and often stinking places. Boy, does she succeed. The prose is just magnificent, bringing to life hitherto overlooked habitats’ Guardian ‘Annie Proulx's sparkling book Fen, Bog & Swamp will open your eyes to humanity's reckless trashing of wetlands in the name of 'improvement'’ Telegraph ‘A haunting tribute to the world’s peatlands … Proulx’s poetic description of these places, and peat itself, is a pleasure to read’ Financial Times ‘Proulx’s astute and impassioned examinations of all kinds of wetlands … show a new side of the novelist we thought we knew’ Los Angeles Times ‘An enchanting work of nature writing and a rousing call to action’ Esquire ‘Writing with her signature vitality, precision, and creativity, she crafts a galvanizing narrative … Proulx’s concern for the future of life on earth as the planet warms is acute’ Booklist

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Book SynopsisBeneath the Arctic ice, the Methanaur is awakening. If this deadly methane monster breaks free, it spells the end of civilization as we know it.Meet Professor Katelyn, Leon, and Mo - also known as The Renegades. Professor Kateyln is a whip-smart scientist who uses her scientific knowledge to develop spectacles that can catch glimpses of the future. Wrestling with his anger at the naysayers who don''t seem to care about the environment, Leon has the ability to become invisible - the perfect spy! And then there''s Mo who, in the wake of his brother''s death in a cyclone, manages to wield a solar shield strong enough to fight the deadliest of foes. Our superheroes grapple with multiple environmental threats, most deadly of all a monster that lurks beneath the melting Arctic ice. If it escapes, this creature of chaos will release huge plumes of methane gas into the atmosphere, changing the balance of our planet''s climate forever. Can the Renegades work to

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Book SynopsisA vital new moral perspective on the climate change debate.Trade Review"In Climate Matters John Broome brings his lucid writing, sparkling insights, and deep moral seriousness to the greatest moral challenge of our time. This is practical ethics at its most brilliant and its most significant." -- Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University"Climate Matters takes up where most books about global warming leave off. John Broome writes clearly and thoughtfully about the most pressing questions of our time." -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe"Broome applies ethical principles logically to private moral behavior and sound government policy on climate change, with interesting and sometimes surprising results. I want to argue with some of it, and climate change is worth arguing about." -- Ross Garnaut, former climate change advisor for the Australian government"How refreshing to have John Broome, an economist, argue that we should incorporate ethics in climate policy formation." -- Lester R. Brown, president of Earth Policy Institute and author of World on the Edge"Unmanaged climate change raises profound ethical, policy, and personal issues which must be faced directly. John Broome, one of the outstanding moral philosophers of our times, presents the issues and his conclusions in a most thoughtful, accessible, practical, and compelling way. A vitally important contribution." -- Nicholas Stern, president of the British Academy and chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics"For me (and for many others, I suspect) it is important to see this ethical side of climate change examined carefully by a skilled philosopher." -- Martin Weitzman, Professor of Economics, Harvard University"John Broome is uniquely qualified to help us think through some of the more important questions. His new book is sometimes controversial and surprising, but always insightful and clear." -- James Garvey - the Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisA roadmap for humanity to create the next era of civilisation.

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Book SynopsisArgues for the importance of ecocritical approaches within the field of Mexican Studies. This book engages with established and up-and-coming Latin American ecocritical scholars who argue that Latin America offers an important corrective to Anglocentric approaches to the Anthropocene by foregrounding colonialism and empire.Trade ReviewCarolyn Fornoff’s insightful and clearly written Subjunctive Aesthetics draws inspiration from a grammatical mood expressing uncertainty and emotion to offer a new interpretation of twenty-first-century Mexican cultural production addressing ecological catastrophe. An innovative contribution to Latin American Environmental Humanities research, Subjunctive Aesthetics stakes an eloquent claim for the capacity of literature, visual arts, and film to imagine the possibilities of a post-extractivist world." —Charlotte Rogers, author of Mourning El Dorado: Literature and Extractivism in the Contemporary American Tropics"Brilliant and wide-ranging, Subjunctive Aesthetics shows how, instead of merely translated into cultural responses based on a straightforward rendering of factual evidence, the inescapable reality of the current ecological crisis has been reimagined by writers, visual artists, and filmmakers in alternative, hypothetical, and speculative ways. This book is fundamental for anyone interested in contemporary Mexican culture and new directions in the Environmental Humanities."—Victoria Saramago, author of Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America “Subjunctive Aesthetics is an original, innovative, and sweeping study of the narrative strategies deployed in Mexican cultural production of the 21st century in response to the climate crisis. It proposes that the subjunctive mood operates as an artistic expression to contest the definitiveness of foreclosure. In a moment of great despair towards a grim future, Subjunctive Aesthetics opens the possibilities to disrupt such closeness by mobilizing desire, emotion, and the imagination. Through innovative theories that illuminate and deepen our understanding of the climate crisis, Fornoff’s marvelous work allows us to reconsider our place in Earth while it reassures that the seed for transformations nests in potentiality.”—Gisela Heffes, author of Visualizing Loss in Latin America: Biopolitics, Waste, and the Urban Environment"This is a fantastic and timely project. The impressive depth of Fornoff’s contextual research is well matched by the nuance in her analyses."—Brian Gollnick, author of Reinventing the LacandÓn: Subaltern Representations in the Rain Forest of ChiapasTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Environmental Rewriting 2. Land Defense and Counterfactual Mourning 3. Extinction Poetics 4. The Rural Resilience Film 5. Greening Mexican Cinema Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow Democracy Survives explores how liberal democracy can better adapt to the planetary challenges of our time by evolving beyond the Westphalian paradigm of the nation state.The authors bring perspectives from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America, their chapters engaging with the concept of transnational democracy by tracing its development in the past, assessing its performance in the present, and considering its potential for survival in this century and beyond. Coming from a wide array of intellectual disciplines and policymaking backgrounds, the authors share a common conviction that our global institutionsboth governments and international organizationsmust become more resilient, transparent, and democratically accountable in order to address the cascading political, economic, and social crises of this new epoch, such as climate change, mass migration, more frequent and severe natural disasters, and resurgent authoritarianism.This book Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: The Forgotten Promise of 1945 1. The Other American Dream: The One World Order and Human Rights 2. We Were Once Colonized: Nehru, India and Afro-Asianism at the United Nations 3. The Peaceful Settlement of Disputes and Chapter VI of the UN Charter: Forgotten ‘Cardinal Feature’ of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals? 4. The Postwar European Integration Process and the Progressive Construction of a Supranational Legal Order 5. Democracy and the Spectacle of Consent: The Forgotten Promise of the United Nations Part II: Globalizing Consent 6. Perceived Inequality and Democratic Support: A Close Analysis from the Asian Barometer Survey 7. Africa, its Diaspora, Transitional Justice, and Global Democracy: Towards a World Parliament 8. ‘World Organization Through Democracy’: Clarence Streit and the Genesis of the Present World Order 9. Current Proposals for Closer Cooperation among Democracies 10. Representation and Participation of Citizens at the United Nations: The Democratic Legitimacy of the UN and Ways to Improve It Part III: Confronting the Anthropocene 11. The Climate Commons and the Survival of Democracy 12. Democracies, Authoritarians, and Climate Change: Do Regime Types Matter? 13. Democracy to Avert Ecocide 14. What Disaster Response Can Teach Us about Democracy in the Anthropocene 15. Democracy in the Age of Automation, Robotics, and Advanced AI Epilogue

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Book SynopsisMuch of the current rhetoric surrounding climate change focuses on the physical changes to the environment and the resulting material damage to infrastructure and resources. Although there has been some dialogue about secondary effects (namely mass migration), little effort has been given to understanding how rapid climate change is affecting people on group and individual levels. In this Element, we examine the psychological impacts of climate change, especially focused on how it will lead to increases in aggressive behaviors and violent conflict, and how it will influence other aspects of human behavior. We also look at previously established psychological effects and use them to help explain changes in human behavior resulting from rapid climate change, as well as to propose actions that can be taken to reduce climate change itself and mitigate harmful effects on humans.Table of ContentsIntroduction; The Climate Change – Violence Model; The Direct Effects of Heat on Cognition and Behavior: Route 1; Indirect Effects of Climate Change on Aggression and Violence; What Solutions are There?; Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book is designed for first- and second-year university students (and their instructors) in earth science, environmental science, and physical geography degree programmes worldwide. The summaries at the end of each section constitute essential reading for policy makers and planners. It provides a simple but masterly account, with a minimum of equations, of how the Earth's climate system works, of the physical processes that have given rise to the long sequence of glacial and interglacial periods of the Quaternary, and that will continue to cause the climate to evolve. Its straightforward and elegant description, with an abundance of well chosen illustrations, focuses on different time scales, and includes the most recent research in climate science by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It shows how it is human behaviour that will determine whether or not the present century is a turning point to a new climate, unprecedented on Earth in the last Table of ContentsForeword xiii Acknowledgements xv About the companion website xvii Introduction 1 PART I: THE CLIMATE ENGINE OF THE EARTH: ENERGY 5 1. Why are there many different climates on Earth? 7 2. Different climates . . . such diversity of life 11 2.1. The different climates on Earth 11 2.2. Climates, biomes and biodiversity 13 2.3. Climate and society 17 3. From a patchwork of climates to an average climate 19 3.1. Temperature and thermal equilibrium 19 3.2. The average temperature of the Earth’s surface 21 3.3. Precipitation 24 3.4. Wind 25 3.5. Three major items in energy consumption 26 4. The global mean climate 27 4.1. The Sun, source of energy 27 4.2. The energy equilibrium at the Earth’s surface 28 5. Atmosphere and ocean: key factors in climate equilibrium 33 5.1. Driving forces 34 5.2. The atmosphere 34 5.3. The oceans 42 5.4. Heat transport from the Equator to the poles 51 Part I: Summary 53 Part I: Notes 54 Part I: Further reading 54 PART II: MORE ON THE ENERGY BALANCE OF THE PLANET 55 6. Thermal radiation, solar and terrestrial radiation 57 6.1. Thermal radiation from a black body 57 6.2. The laws of black]body radiation 58 6.3. Solar and terrestrial radiation 59 7. The impact of the atmosphere on radiation 61 7.1. Scattering and reflection 61 7.2. Absorption by a gas – the cut]off approximation 62 7.3. Absorption of solar and terrestrial radiation by atmospheric gases 64 7.4. Direct transfer by the atmosphere 68 7.5. Major atmospheric constituents involved in radiative transfer 69 8. Radiative transfer through the atmosphere 73 8.1. Three radiative mechanisms that heat or cool the Earth’s surface 73 8.2. The greenhouse effect 78 8.3. Radiative transfer: the roles of the different constituents 83 8.4. The radiation balance of the Earth 86 9. The energy balance 87 9.1. The energy balance at the surface of the Earth in the single]layer model 87 9.2. The Earth’s energy balance at equilibrium 89 9.3. The impact of human activity 91 9.4. The present unbalanced global energy budget 91 10. Climate forcing and feedback 93 10.1. Climate forcing 93 10.2. Feedbacks 95 10.3. Climate sensitivity 98 11. Climate modelling 99 11.1. The Energy Balance and Radiative–Convective Models 99 11.2. Three-dimensional Atmosphere Global Circulation Models 101 11.3. Three-dimensional models: ever-increasing refinements 103 11.4. Climate models – what for? 104 Part II. Summary 105 Part II. Notes 106 Part II. Further reading 107 PART III: THE DIFFERENT CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE 109 12. The choice of approach 111 13. The Sun’s emission 115 13.1. The impact on the climate 115 13.2. How emission varies 115 13.3. What are the consequences? 117 14. The position of the Earth with respect to the Sun 119 14.1. An overview 119 14.2. Irradiance, determined by orbital parameters 120 14.3. Changes in obliquity: the impact on the seasons 120 14.4. Changes in the Earth’s orbit and eccentricity: the impact on the Earth–Sun distance 122 14.5. Precession of the axis of rotation: the impact on the Earth–Sun distance at different seasons 124 14.6. Changes in irradiance 127 15. The composition of the atmosphere 129 15.1. The effect on the climate: the mechanism 129 15.2. How the composition has changed, and why 130 15.3. What are the consequences? 133 16. Heat transfer from the Equator to the poles 135 16.1. The impact on the climate: the mechanism 135 16.2. How and why can the transfer vary? 135 16.3. What are the consequences? 136 17. Oscillations due to ocean–atmosphere interactions 137 17.1. The impact on the climate: the mechanism 137 17.2. The El Niño Southern Oscillation and trade wind fluctuations 138 17.3. The North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillations 142 Part III. Summary 145 Part III. Notes 146 Part III. Further reading 147 PART IV: LEARNING FROM THE PAST … 149 18. Memory of the distant past 151 18.1. Over billions of years … 151 18.2. The past tens of millions of years: slow cooling 152 18.3. The entry of Northern Hemisphere glaciations 156 19. Since 2.6 million years ago: the dance of glaciations 161 19.1. The archives of the dance 161 19.2. The glacial–interglacial cycles 168 19.3. Glacials and interglacials: very different climate stages 169 19.4. Glacials and interglacials: similar but never identical 173 19.5. Abrupt climate changes in the last climate cycle 174 20. Glacial–interglacial cycles and the Milankovitch theory 181 20.1. The leading role of the Northern Hemisphere 182 20.2. Seasonal irradiance, the key parameter in Quaternary glaciations 182 20.3. Two types of configuration 183 20.4. The climate in the past 250,000 years 184 20.5. Glacials and interglacials: similar situations, never identical 188 20.6. The energy budget: radiative forcing and feedback 189 21. The glaciation dance: consequences and lessons 191 21.1. The impact on life of glacial–interglacial cycles 191 21.2. Lessons to be drawn 196 21.3. When will the next glaciation come? 198 22. The past 12,000 years: the warm Holocene 201 22.1. The Holocene 201 22.2. Deciphering climate changes during the Holocene 202 22.3. Slow changes in irradiance (Timescale 1: millennia) 203 22.4. Slow cooling at middle and high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere 203 22.5. Strong monsoon in the Early Holocene: the ‘Green Sahara’ episode 206 22.6. Solar fluctuations (Timescale 2: centuries) 214 22.7. The Holocene and the birth of agriculture and animal husbandry 222 23. Global and regional fluctuations (Timescale 3: decades) 225 23.1. From global … 226 23.2. … to regional: the North Atlantic Oscillation 229 23.3. The Sun, the other source of change 230 24. Future warming and past climates 231 24.1. The global ‘hot flush’ of 55 million years ago 231 24.2. Three million years ago 233 24.3. Warmer periods in the past 2 million years? 233 Part IV. Summary 235 Part IV. Notes 236 Part IV. Further reading 239 PART V: CLIMATE CHANGE IN RECENT YEARS 241 25. Recent climate change 243 25.1. Changes in temperature 243 25.2. Changes in precipitation, water vapour and extreme events 249 25.3. An overview of the past few decades 255 25.4. The impact of global warming: the key issue 255 26. The impact of global warming on the cryosphere 257 26.1. Sea ice, the ‘canary’ of our planet 257 26.2. Changes in glaciers 261 26.3. Ice]sheet changes 264 26.4. Changes in frozen soils 267 26.5. Freeze]up and snow cover 271 27. The impact of warming on the ocean 273 27.1. Change in sea level 274 27.2. Regional changes in ocean salinity 278 27.3. Is deep ocean circulation slowing? 279 27.4. Changes in dissolved carbon dioxide and ocean acidification 280 27.5. In summary: consistency over the globe 283 28. The impact of warming on the biosphere 285 28.1. Ongoing changes 285 28.2. Oceans 286 28.3. Land 289 28.4. Portents of dysfunction 295 29. Warming in the 20th century: natural or human]induced? 297 29.1. The carbon cycle prior to the industrial era 298 29.2. The impact of human activity on the carbon cycle 305 29.3. Changes related to human activity 310 29.4. Natural causes: solar and volcanic activity 313 29.5. An overview of all the causes: the major role of human activity 314 Part V. Summary 320 Part V. Notes 321 Part V. Further reading 322 PART VI: CLIMATE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: DIFFERENT SCENARIOS 323 30. Two key factors 325 30.1. Greenhouse gas emissions 325 30.2. Population growth 328 31. Projections: economic scenarios and climate models 329 31.1. Successive steps in a projection 329 31.2. Climate models 331 32. Simulations: a survey 333 32.1. Long]term scenarios 333 32.2. IPCC 2007 scenarios for the 21st century 336 32.3. IPCC 2013 scenarios for the 21st century 339 33. Future warming and its consequences 343 33.1. Global warming 343 33.2. The water cycle and precipitation 344 33.3. Extreme events 347 33.4. Snow and ice 347 33.5. The sea level 348 33.6. Ocean acidification 349 33.7. Climate predictions: what degree of confidence? 350 33.8. In summary, the future is already with us 354 34. The choice 355 34.1. Can future warming be counteracted naturally? 355 34.2. Which choice of scenario? 356 34.3. Global warming: no more than 2°C 360 34.4. The ‘Triple Zero’ challenge 360 35. Climate change in the present state of the planet 363 35.1. Environmental degradation 363 35.2. Depletion of energy resources 364 35.3. Inexorable world population growth? 364 35.4. A new type of development? 364 Part VI. Summary 366 Part VI. Notes 367 Part VI. Further reading 368 Conclusion 369 References 373 Index 383

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Book SynopsisApply the tried-and-tested principles of Six Sigma to the fight against climate change In this much needed book, Dr RonBasudelivers an insightful exploration as well as sage advice on how to apply the principles of Lean Six Sigma to today's climate crisis.Green Six Sigma: A Lean Approach to Sustainable Climate Change Initiativesis an adaption of Lean Six Sigma for climate change initiatives. How can we use Green Six Sigma urgently and effectively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the harmful effects of global warming? This practical and workable book covers topics that are highly relevant to the times we live in: Climate change challenges and initiatives to mitigate them Examination of the Green Six Sigma approach, its tools and techniques as well as modifications to incorporate both the digital revolution and sustainability Applications of the Green Six Sigma approach to a variety of areas relevant to climate Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgements xiii About the Author xv Chapter 1: Climate Change Challenges 1 Chapter 2: International and National Climate Change Initiatives 13 Chapter 3: The Evolution of Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma and Green Six Sigma 27 Chapter 4: More of Green Six Sigma 53 Chapter 5: Green Six Sigma Tools 95 Chapter 6: The Digital Revolution and Climate Change 197 Chapter 7: Green Six Sigma and Clean Energy 219 Chapter 8: Green Six Sigma and Green Supply Chain 235 Chapter 9: Green Six Sigma and Green Transport 259 Chapter 10: Green Six Sigma and Retrofitting Buildings 275 Chapter 11: Green Six Sigma and Climate Adaptation 291 Chapter 12: Implementation: Making It Happen 311 Appendix 1: Carbon Footprint Factsheet 345 Appendix 2: Yield Conversion Table 351 References 353 Glossary 361 Index 377

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Book SynopsisThis book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre. Since its inception, theatre has staged the fall of empires, floods, doomsdays, shipwrecks, earthquakes, plagues, environmental degradations, warfare, nuclear annihilation, and the catastrophic effects of climate change. Using a wide range of plays alongside contemporary thinkers, this study helps guide and galvanize the reader in grappling with the climate crisis. Kulick divides this litany of theatrical cataclysms into four distinct historical phases: the Ancients, including Euripides and Bhasa, the legendary Sanskrit dramatist; the Age of Belief, with the anonymous authors of the medieval mystery cycles, Shakespeare, and Pushkin; the Moderns, with Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, Beckett, and Bond; and, finally, the way the world might end now, encompassing Caryl Churchill, Tony Kushner, and Anne Washburn. In tandem with the insights gleaned from these playwrights, the book draws upon the work Trade ReviewIt's odd to call a book about the apocalypse delightful. It's odd to encounter a book about plays, a work of literary and philosophical inquiry, that has the urgency and force of a political tract, that's unashamedly, and persuasively, a call to action. It's almost as odd to encounter a rigorous scholarly work of extraordinary erudition that's also grippingly, compellingly readable. Staging The End Of The World is all these things; I've never read anything like it. Jonathan Schell, Amitav Ghosh, Hannah Arendt, Asja Lacis, Arne Naess, Thich Nhat Hanh, Davids Benatar and Graeber, Kant and Levinas are just a few among the legions assembled by the author to engage with, expand upon and illuminate the works of a host of playwrights, from Aeschylus to Anne Washburn, for a deeply serious exploration of the most serious subject imaginable. These pages are often heartbreaking, frightening, disturbing, and they contain passages of dark despair, but they're suffused with generosity, clarity and a strange, original spirit of grief-stricken determination and joy. Brian Kulick, a great theater artist who's also a glorious thinker and writer, has written a book that's an important contribution to our understanding of how plays work on us and what they can tell us about ourselves and our overwhelming, imperiled world; and more than that, he's offered magnificent proof of the necessity of playfulness, even in the face of the direst circumstances, if we hope to discover paths forward and to create change. * Tony Kushner *Brian Kulick’s latest book is a marvel and a delight. Staging the End of the World uses theatre to examine humanity's most chilling fears and deepest hopes. Kulick’s brilliant mind refuses to accept traditional intellectual boundaries. This is a wonderful book about the theatre which is also a mesmerizing philosophical study and an urgent response to climate change. Kulick is the most incisive and widely learned mind in the American theatre, and he has written an indispensable book. * Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, Public Theater, New York City, USA *A thought-provoking and timely analysis of theatre’s preoccupation with the end of the world and eco-catastrophe from antiquity to the present. * Chris Megson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: On Transforming Our Social Imaginary PART ONE: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS IN ANCIENT TIMES 1. Lessons Amongst the Ruins; Or, What Survives and Why: How the Cultural Detritus of the Ancients Can Become a Kind of First Philosophy 2. Slouching Toward Kurukshetra: A Brief Look at the Mahabharatas of Bhasa, Bharati, and Brook 3. Diasporas Old and New: What Euripides' Children of Herakles Can Tell Us About the Coming Climate Wars and Resulting Refugee Crisis PART TWO: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS IN THE AGE OF FAITH 4. Noahs, Arks, and Floods: Why Medieval Mystery Plays Still Have Something to Say About Our Modern Day “End of Days” 5. Shipwrecks, Recursion, and the Necessity of Deep Ecology: Surviving Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the Breaking of Our Anthropocene Ways 6. On Earthquakes and Metaphors: Bouilly’s Disaster of Lisbon and the Fukushima Variation PART THREE: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS IN MODERN TIMES 7. Plague’s Threat to Our Immune and Belief Systems: A Look at Pushkin’s A Feast in the Time of Plague 8. A Canary in the Bourgeois Coal Mine, Part One: Pollution and Direct Critique in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People 9. A Canary in the Bourgeois Coal Mine, Part Two: Denial and Indirect Critique in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard PART FOUR: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS NOW 10. Ethics During Dark Times: Brecht’s He Who Says Yes and He Who Says No 11. On the Other Side of the Apocalypse: The Broken Worlds of Beckett and Bond 12. Nostalgia for the Future: The Fraught Tomorrows of Rivera, Churchill, Washburn, and Kushner Coda: And in the End Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewForecast is the most urgently needed, most important book I have read in a very long time. * Michael Morpurgo *This urgent, elegiac book’s call to mend our broken relationship with the land feels more vital by the day. * Mail on Sunday *With a journalist's eye for detail, he backs up his captivating anecdotal evidence regarding the seasons with the results of solid scientific research to finger the culprit: global warming. * Countryfile *At its core, this book is a love letter to the biosphere and to our bond with it. Joe Shute has a journalist’s ear and a lover’s eye; he demonstrates what one sees while moving across the land, tracking change when all else seemed still. This is no ordinary nature diary – it enlarges our perspective of what has altered, and what is being lost … this is one of the most poignant and affecting nature books I have read this year. * Miriam Darlington *An absolutely beautiful account of life going on while the world stopped. I loved it. * Kate Bradbury *Joe Shute does not rant but, with passion and expertise, illuminates in beautifully clear prose, laced with well-judged literary and historical references, the scale of the threat posed to our natural world by Climate Change. A ‘must read’ for anyone who is curious and who cares. * Jonathan Dimbleby *Joe Shute is one of Britain's finest writers on nature. Or indeed, any other subject. * John Lewis-Stempel *What a wonderful read. Joe has interwoven our national pastime, our obsession about the weather, into a fascinating history of our changing climate through the centuries and its defining influence on our consciousness. Told through the eyes of farmers, poets and philosophers as well as the author’s own personal explorations across the country, Forecast is a beautifully written elegy to our natural world and a warning of how quickly it is changing. * William Sieghart *Table of ContentsChapter 1: A Lockdown Spring Chapter 2: Weather Watch Chapter 3: Storm Clouds Chapter 4: Seasons Past Chapter 5: The Changing Harvest Chapter 6: Exodus Chapter 7: Budburst Chapter 8: Winter Sleep Chapter 9: Muirburn Chapter 10: Melting Chapter 11: Waterland Chapter 12: The Vast Machine Chapter 13: Weather Notes Chapter 14: Solstice Further Reading Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisThe world faces a climate crisis and an ascendant far right. Are these trends related? How does the far right think about the environment, and what openings does the coming crisis present for them? This incisive new book traces the long history of far-right environmentalism and explores how it is adapting to the contemporary world. It argues that the extreme right, after years of denying the reality of climate change, are now showing serious signs of reversing their strategy. A new generation of far-right activists has realized that impending environmental catastrophe represents their best chance yet for a return to relevance. In reality, however, their noxious blend of conspiracy, hatred and violence is no solution at all: it is the ‘eco-socialism of fools’. Only a real commitment to climate justice can save us and stop the far right in its tracks. No-one interested in the struggle against right-wing extremism and the crusade for climate justice can afford to miss this trenchant critique of burgeoning ecofascism.Trade Review“An urgent and comprehensive survey of the risks generated by the nature politics of today's far right – and how to fight them.”Paul Mason, author of How to Stop Fascism “Since the attacks in Christchurch and El Paso in 2019, public discussion of ecofascism has become more urgent than ever. This book adds substantially to our understanding of a challenging subject through critical examination of rapidly evolving environmental politics on the far right.”Peter Staudenmaier, co-author of Ecofascism: Lessons from the German Experience “Essential reading for anyone concerned with politics in a warming world.”Andreas Malm, co-author of White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism“The book ranges widely […], from individual terrorists and the fringes of the internet to main stream political parties.”Adam Weymouth, Resurgence & Ecologist“a captivating and important read.”International AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. A History of Far-Right Ecologism 2. The far right and nature now 3. Online far-right ecologism and far-right movements 4. Deadly Ecofascist Violence 5. Towards Ecofascism Proper? Notes

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Book SynopsisAround the world, leading economies are announcing significant progress on climate change. World leaders are queuing up to proclaim their commitment to tackling the climate crisis, pointing to data that shows the progress they have made. Yet the atmosphere is still warming at a record rate, with devastating effects on poverty and precarity in the world’s most vulnerable communities. Are we being deceived?Climate change is devastating the planet, and globalisation is hiding it. This book opens our eyes. Carbon colonialism explores the murky practices of outsourcing a country’s environmental impact, where emissions and waste are exported from rich countries to poorer ones; a world in which corporations and countries are allowed to maintain a clean, green image while landfills in the world’s poorest countries continue to expand, and droughts and floods intensify under the auspices of globalisation, deregulation and economic growth. Taking a wide-ranging, culturally engaged approach to the topic, the book shows how this is not only a technical problem, but a problem of cultural and political systems and structures – from nationalism to economic logic – deeply embedded in our society.Trade Review'Carbon colonialism is a timely analysis of the contradictions of climate politics. It not only makes visible the concealed costs of extraction hidden beneath the shiny sustainability commitments of Global North politics, but also provides an eye-opening account of climate breakdown in the Global South.'Matthias Schmelzer, author of The Future Is Degrowth 'By taking readers on a journey through landscapes poisoned by the effluvia of economic growth, Laurie Parsons exposes the ongoing impact of colonialism and global capitalism on some of the most vulnerable places on earth. Read this book if you want to understand how the impacts of history are still reverberating today.'Carry Somers, founder of Fashion Revolution'Thoroughly recommend reading this excellent book. A fascinating and well-written explanation of how global capitalism exports environmental destruction to poor places, while extracting wealth to rich ones.'Grace Blakeley, author of The Corona Crash'Carbon colonialism is an uncomfortable book to read from the comforts of the rich world. It is unsettling because Laurie Parsons renders visible through curated cases and close argument the global signatures of environmental risk, exposure and reward, and the structural violence of climate change.'Jonathan Rigg, Professor of Human Geography, University of Bristol'An eye-opening, fact-based indictment of the current path we’re on, one where rich countries and companies are accumulating the resources to mitigate the impacts of climate change rather than moving to stop environmental destruction.'Assaad Razzouk, author of Saving the Planet Without the Bull 'Fantastic. Moving. And beautifully written.' Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton'Carbon colonialism exposes the uneven geography of the climate crises through thoughtful field work, detailing how destructive global environmental change is teleconnected to impoverishment. Parsons traces the ways in which the most egregious effects of climate change are found at the bottom of global gradients of inequality while tackling head on the myths that surround the political economy of climate change.'Andrew Brooks, Reader in Uneven Development, King's College London and author of Clothing Poverty 'Carbon colonialism is a welcome salve to the pernicious greenwashing that pollutes contemporary capitalism. Laurie Parsons skillfully weaves ethnographic encounters with detailed research to craft a book that is both timely and urgently necessary. Carbon Colonialism asks critical questions about the status-quo, where life is cheap, destruction is uneven, and profit is extracted from our planetary future.' Thom Davies, Associate Professor in Geography, University of Nottingham and co-editor of Toxic Truths'Parsons takes everyday objects – bricks, a pair of socks, teabags – and draws out lessons from their global supply chains. And it was great to hear more from Cambodia, a country we don’t hear from very much, and where Parsons has spent a lot of time. Altogether, Carbon colonialism is a stark reminder that for all its apparent environmental progress, consumer capitalism still relies on invisible "elsewheres" to keep the economic wheels turning.'Jeremy Williams, The Earthbound Report'This book explains how wealth is ruling and harming the environment. We are all accountable for our unsustainable overuse of natural resources and climate change. Therefore, this book must be read by every individual, not just those with a specific interest.'Ankita Sharma, Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol. 15 Issue 1'The paramount merit of Carbon Colonialism resides in shedding light on our present environmental panorama and exposing the intricate interweaving of the capitalist production model with the generation and dissemination of environmental vulnerability worldwide. Acknowledging this underlying rationale within our global economy marks the primary pivotal stride towards steering actions and crafting genuinely effective regulations to mitigate the environmental impact of consumption.'Leonardo Macedo, Ethnic and Racial Studies'Parsons’ major contribution through this book is to identify the political economy of climate change and the vulnerabilities which emerge from it. The book will be especially helpful for economists, political economists and geographers who research issues around climate change policy and accountability. However, anyone interested the current global environmental problem, climate change and sustainability issues will find this book captivating. The book lays bare the dismal state of the global climate crisis and argues convincingly that protecting the planet must go hand in hand with ensuring fairness, equity and social justice for all people.'Sneha Biswas, LSE Review of Books 'Fabulous and much-needed'Melody Kemp, Society of Environmental Journalists'Parsons’s lively and accessible synthesis debunks the myth of a livable and just future under carbon colonialism...'Z. Albertson, Western Washington University, CHOICE (March 2024 Vol. 61 No. 7) -- .Table of Contents1: Moving forwards, or dumping sideways? The myth of a sustainable future Part I: Greenwashing the global factory2: Founding the global factory: the first five hundred years3: Consumer power in the global factory: a lucrative illusion4: Carbon colonialism: hidden emissions in the global peripheryPart II: Manufacturing disaster in the global factory5: Climate precarity: how global inequality shapes environmental vulnerability6: Money talks: who gets to speak for the environment and how7: Wolves in sheep’s clothing: how corporate logic co-opts climate action8: Six myths that fuel carbon colonialism – and how to think differentlyIndex

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Book SynopsisA Financial Times BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alverà spells Hydrogen's critical role as an energy store in the clean power transition' - Mike Berners-Lee, author of THERE IS NO PLANET BPicture this: the looming shadow of climate change is finally receding. The planet's temperature is stabilising. Rainforests and coral reefs are beginning to thrive once more.This isn't just wishful thinking - it can be our reality if we embrace the power of hydrogen. Hydrogen is simple to harness, simple to use, and has the potential to bring clean energy to every corner of the globe. As leading energy expert Marco Alverà explains, if we're going to heal the climate, we need to start thinking big. So whether you're a policy-maker, a business person, an activist, or just simply curious, this book is a blueprint for how to get us there. 'An important contribution to advance the energy transition' Mark Carney 'A comprehensive and comprehensible vision for hydrogen from a top business leader' Jonathan Stern, Oxford Institute for Energy StudiesTrade Review[This] lively book is an engaging guide to a fuel that could go mainstream faster than expected. * Financial Times, FT BOOKS OF THE YEAR *Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alverà spells Hydrogen's critical role as an energy store in the clean power transition, and who can do what right now to kick it over the line -- Mike Berners-Lee, author of THERE IS NO PLANET BNo one company can solve the challenge of climate change. We share responsibility, not just across our direct emissions, but across our supply chain too. We must take responsibility for the carbon footprint of our own technology and company, but we will also go beyond that. In his new book, Marco Alverà offers a clear and compelling vision and a blueprint to ensure its success. -- Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO, MicrosoftTo achieve the climate goals from the Paris Agreement, we need a wholesale transformation of our energy system. This book sets out compellingly the role that Hydrogen plays in this transformation and is an important contribution to advance the energy transition. -- Mark CarneyAn engaging and insightful overview of the tiny molecule that could revolutionise climate action. Like hydrogen itself, Marco Alverà is a superb connector - of ideas, approaches and practical, positive solutions. -- Dr Gabrielle WalkerIn The Hydrogen Revolution Marco has written an invaluable explainer on hydrogen - a key to us achieving net zero. But perhaps more importantly the book is an urgent rallying call for action, a call policy-makers across the globe need to heed. -- Peter MandelsonAs the challenges of the energy transition become more apparent, hydrogen is coming to be seen not only as a new entrant but also an essential fuel for the decades ahead. Marco Alvera, a leader in the international energy industry, explains how he went from being a hydrogen skeptic to seeing the big role that hydrogen can play in the future. And more than that - a hydrogen revolution is coming, he predicts, and sooner than many expect! -- Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE PRIZEThis book presents a vision for the future based on hydrogen and renewables that is clear, grounded and hopeful. It also provides crucial tools and information to fully understand the forces shaping the energy transition - and get involved. -- Francesco La Camera, Director General of IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency)This book offers clear and thought-provoking ideas about the future of hydrogen. It can help inform the conversation on how to enable hydrogen to play an important role in global clean energy transitions. -- Dr Fatih Birol, IEA Executive DirectorA comprehensive and comprehensible vision for hydrogen from a top business leader. -- Jonathan Stern, Oxford Institute for Energy StudiesMarco Alverà paints a vibrant and achievable vision for green hydrogen's role in the transition towards a sustainable global energy system. -- Jules Kortenhorst, CEO of RMIA comprehensive and up to date piece of work on the compelling reality and value proposition of green hydrogen to decarbonize the hard to abate sectors, presented in an engaging, easy to read and assimilated style; a must read for all. -- Paddy Padmanathan, CEO of ACWA PowerIn this excellently-written and engaging book, Marco Alverà sets out an attractive vision for a hydrogen-fuelled future. -- Myles Allen, Director of Oxford Net Zero.Hydrogen will undoubtedly play a crucial role in tomorrow's zero carbon economy and few people have thought more deeply about that role than Marco Alverà. In this insightful and powerfully argued book he sets out not only the feasible and attractive vision of an economy dominated by electricity and hydrogen, but the practical steps we must now take to speed progress towards that end. -- Lord Adair Turner, Chair of the Energy Transitions CommissionThe hydrogen revolution is coming, and this book paves the way to achieving it. Powerful, pragmatic and compelling, Marco sets out with clarity the critical role of hydrogen alongside renewable electricity to reach net-zero objectives. -- Lei Zhang, Founder and CEO of EnvisionMarco Alverà's new book is a rare thing - a thoughtful and deliberate manifesto to galvanize investment and public support for an essential element of the zero-carbon energy future and a pathway to stronger global partnerships. The book is an instant classic - breezy, fun, personal and easy to read, the book presents vivid and actionable choices to all readers. Alverà skilfully makes some very complex parts of the energy system easy to understand - a marvel in our jargon-strewn field. Stop reading this note already and read the book! -- Dr Julio Friedmann * Columbia University, SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy *A clear articulation of how hydrogen can help save the planet. I was skeptical about hydrogen's potential, but this book changed my mind. The Hydrogen Revolution is an essential read for every climate-conscious individual. -- Charles Edgar Haldeman, former Chairman of S&P GlobalThis is an excellent contribution to the current and essential debate on the energy revolution with a very powerful argument in favour of hydrogen, which will certainly be part of the solution to the global response to climate change. -- José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, 2004/2014Compelling stuff and a must-read for armchair eco-warriors everywhere * The Swansea Bay *

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Book SynopsisA NPR Best Book of 2023A Shelf Awareness Best Nonfiction Book of 2023An August 2023 Indie Next Pick, selected by booksellersA Vogue Most Anticipated Book of 2023A WBUR Summer Reading RecommendationA Next Big Idea Club's August 2023 Must-Read BookAn astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.In 2019, fifty-seven scientists and crew set out onboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Their destination: Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to learn as much as possible about this mysterious place, never before visited by humans, and believed to be both rapidly deteriorating and capable of making a catastrophic impact on global sea-level rise.In The Quickening, Elizabeth Rush documents their voyage, offering the sublime—seeing an iceberg for the first time; the staggering waves of the Drake Passage; the torqued, unfamiliar contours of Thwaites—alongside the workaday moments of this groundbreaking expedition. A ping-pong tournament at sea. Long hours in the lab. All the effort that goes into caring for and protecting human life in a place that is inhospitable to it. Along the way, she takes readers on a personal journey around a more intimate question: What does it mean to bring a child into the world at this time of radical change?What emerges is a new kind of Antarctica story, one preoccupied not with flag planting but with the collective and challenging work of imagining a better future. With understanding the language of a continent where humans have only been present for two centuries. With the contributions and concerns of women, who were largely excluded from voyages until the last few decades, and of crew members of color, whose labor has often gone unrecognized. The Quickening teems with their voices—with the colorful stories and personalities of Rush’s shipmates—in a thrilling chorus.Urgent and brave, absorbing and vulnerable, The Quickening is another essential book from Elizabeth Rush.Trade ReviewPraise for The Quickening “The Quickening, Elizabeth Rush’s new work of nonfiction, reframes the end of the world—geographical and climatological. [. . .] Alongside recitations of the science as well as meditations of a much more personal nature, the intrepid reader is treated to prose that lifts Rush’s work far above standard journalism.”—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times“Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening is one part memoir, one part reporting from the edge—think Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction—a book that feels as though it was written from the brink. In this case the extreme scenario is literal: Rush, a journalist, joins a crew of scientists aboard a ship headed for a glacier in Antarctica that is, like much of the poles, rapidly disappearing. The book brings the environmental crisis into a personal sphere, asking what it means to have a child in the face of such catastrophic change. [. . .] Rush writes with clarity and precision, giving a visceral sense of everything from the gear required to traverse an arctic landscape to the interior landscape of a woman facing change both global and immediate.”—Vogue, “Most Anticipated Books of 2023”“[The Quickening] offers an exploration story that is also a literature of community, as attentive to the cooks and the marine techs as it is to the scientists whose work they support. [. . .] Ultimately Rush determines that the work of parenting, like the floating village of people studying the glacier, is paving the way for other, better futures.”—Rachel Riederer, Scientific American“In The Quickening, Elizabeth Rush takes readers to the precipice of the climate crisis. Aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer, an American icebreaker, Rush and a crew of scientists, journalists, and support staff set bow and stern in front of Thwaites Glacier for the first time in history [. . .] The Quickening is a poignant, necessary addition to the body of Antarctic literature, one that centers—without glorifying—motherhood, uncertainty, community, vulnerability, and beauty in a rapidly melting world.”—Science“[The Quickening is] a distinctive addition to the Antarctic canon. [. . .] Rush centers women’s voices in her exploration of motherhood and the Earth, gliding between her personal reflections, descriptions of life aboard the ship and stories of what comes after. Simultaneously lyrical and analytical, The Quickening depicts Rush’s search for meaning while rejecting easy answers.”—BookPage, starred review“Elizabeth Rush takes readers along as she documents the 2019 Thwaites Glacier expedition in Antarctica. The voyage had 57 scientists, researchers and recorders onboard to document the groundbreaking glacier, which has never been visited by humans. [. . .] Rush ties her findings of the Thwaites Glacier expedition to raising kids and living in a quickly changing world.”—WBUR, “8 Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List”“The fascinating inside story of climate science at the edge of Antarctica [. . .] In this follow-up to Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, Rush shows us how data collection happens, capturing the intriguing details of climate science in the field [. . .] The scientists are not the only heroes of Rush’s book, which emphasizes above all the collaborative and interdependent nature of such voyages, where so much depends on the staff and crew. In addition to her own poetic voice, the author incorporates the voices of everyone on the ship, highlighting women and racial and ethnic minorities, who have been overlooked in the canon of Antarctic literature.”—Kirkus Reviews“Rush’s reporting is top-notch, and her personal reflections make this an unusually intimate account of climate change. Readers will find plenty to ponder.”—Publishers Weekly“Elizabeth Rush, Pulitzer Prize finalist for Rising, is no stranger to chronicling difficult narratives about climate change, and conveys profound urgency without ever descending into panic. In The Quickening, she turns that skill to a most daunting task: joining the crew of the Nathaniel B. Palmer and the team of scientists attempting to gather data from Antarctica's never-before-explored Thwaites Glacier. [. . .] As impressive as the structure is, it's at the sentence level that Rush's artistry shines, each description a pearl, and the string of them a thing of undeniable beauty. Rush is a journalist, with a scientist's curiosity and powers of observation, but she is also a poet, and sentences like this one demonstrate her formidable skills: 'I get the sense that all afternoon, I have been eavesdropping on a conversation that has been taking place over hundreds of years, a conversation whose language is material, written in ice and rock and bone.”—Shelf Awareness, starred review"An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction."—Next Big Idea Club"In 2019, a group of scientists set out for Thwaites Glacier, which has the ominous nickname of Doomsday Glacier, in the Antarctic. It had never been visited before by humans, and the goal was to gather as much information as possible. The glacier itself is suspected to be deteriorating, which could have catastrophic effects on sea levels.Rush not only documents the scientific journey and gives voice to various crew members, but also explores what it means to bring a new life into the world, as she starts to contemplate motherhood in the time of climate change."—Book Riot“The Quickening took me on an immersive journey through both exterior and interior landscapes, deftly crossing the boundaries between the frigid Antarctic and the warm heart. Elizabeth Rush’s writing is multilayered, from fascinating scientific accounts to intimate human stories and deep examinations of how we live deliberately in a melting world.”—Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass“In The Quickening, Elizabeth Rush chronicles a months-long journey to the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica with scientists who are conducting research that will help us better understand how global warming is reshaping our planet. As with Rising, this book is beautifully written, deeply felt, and thoroughly researched. [. . .] Antarctica is a mysterious, terrifying, vast place and Rush captures all of it with genuine curiosity and intelligence. This book is at once a love letter and a meditation and a gentle warning—and we very much need all three.”—Roxane Gay, Goodreads“The Quickening is the Antarctic book I've been waiting for—an immersive modern day expedition tale, a reflection on science and knowledge-making, a confrontation with gendered histories, and a brilliant writer's spellbinding meditation on human mistakes, distant goals, and courage.”—Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning: A Novel“The Quickening is about the end of a great glacier and the beginning of a small life. It is a book about imagining the future, and it is a book of hope.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky“Going to the Antarctic is an adventure, big science is an adventure, having a child is an adventure—and all of these adventurers are shaded by the great and tragic adventure of our time, the plunge into an ever-warmer world. So, this is an adventure story for the ages!”—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature“An Antarctic book like no other, this mesmerizing account of a writer contemplating motherhood tagging along on a scientific voyage to the literal bottom of the world is the best writing I have read about climate change yet. The poetically personal account, mixed with the chorus of the scientists’ statements of purpose, catches the reader’s attention in a way no dry facts could.”—Sam Miller, Carmichael’s Bookstore, Louisville, KY“One of the most insightful expeditions I have read in quite some time. Not only does Elizabeth Rush sail into the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, but she also elegantly navigates the difficult questions of meaning and purpose that hold together the center of our communities and selves. Rush’s narration is one that will find an audience of questioners and explorers, both of the world and the soul, for years to come.”—Emerson Sistare, Toadstool Bookstore, Keene, NH“Elizabeth Rush is a proven chronicler of our changing planet, and in The Quickening, she turns her perspicacious gaze to the complex entwining of birth and loss. Told in a chorus of voices, this is a vital addition to the literature of the climate emergency.”—Stephen Sparks, Point Reyes Books, Point Reyes, CA“At one point in The Quickening, Rush makes the point that we know more about the moon than we do about the Antarctic ocean, which feels impossible and isn’t. This whole book was like that, bringing fantastical truths about the natural world into sharp focus alongside our personal, everday decision-making. As Rush witnesses firsthand the effects of climate change on the glacier Thwaites while hoping to become a mother, we’re able to focus on hope even as we reckon with our impact on the planet.”—Ellie Ray, Content Book Store, Northfield, MN“Ranging from glaciers to what grows within, this journey to Antarctica is like none you’ve read before—delightful and devastating, profound and grounded, but most of all shimmering with life. The Quickening is a mesmerizing ode to the power of melting ice and the necessity of creation amid world-altering change. I cried and laughed from cover to cover.” —Bathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait“In The Quickening, Elizabeth Rush offers readers a symphony of voices from the people who stand at the forefront of climate investigations, woven with the singular lyrical story about a woman’s embodied hope for the future. On a ship bound for the uncharted edge of the fragile Thwaites Glacier, experience an Antarctic voyage you’ve never heard before, about a warming world breaking apart, even as new life begins.” —Meera Subramanian, author of A River Runs Again: India’s Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of KarnatakaPraise for RisingFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTIONWINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARDA CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018A GUARDIAN, NPR’s SCIENCE FRIDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018 “A rigorously reported story about American vulnerability to rising seas, particularly disenfranchised people with limited access to the tools of rebuilding.”―Jury Citation, Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction“Deeply felt . . . Rush captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry; the book is further enriched with illuminating detail from the lives of those people inhabiting today’s coasts. . . . Elegies like this one will play an important role as people continue to confront a transformed, perhaps unnatural world.”—New York Times“The book on climate change and sea levels that was missing. Rush travels from vanishing shorelines in New England to hurting fishing communities to retracting islands and, with empathy and elegance, conveys what it means to lose a world in slow motion. Picture the working-class empathy of Studs Terkel paired with the heartbreak of a poet.”—Chicago Tribune (Best Ten Books of 2018)“Sea level rise is not some distant problem in a distant place. As Rush shows, it’s affecting real people right now. Rising is a compelling piece of reporting, by turns bleak and beautiful.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky“A smart, lyrical testament to change and uncertainty. Rush listens to both the vulnerability and resiliency of communities facing the shifting shorelines of extreme weather. These are the stories we need to hear in order to survive and live more consciously with a sharp-edged determination to face our future with empathy and resolve. Rising illustrates how climate change is a relentless truth and how real people in real places know it by name, storm by flood by fire.”—Terry Tempest Williams, author of Erosion“Lovely and thoughtful . . . Reading [Rush’s] book is like learning ecology at the feet of a poet.”―Minneapolis Star Tribune“With tasteful and dynamic didactic language, [Rush] informs the layperson about the imminent threat of climate change while grounding the massive scope of the problem on heartfelt human and interspecies connection.”―Los Angeles Review of Books“Moving and urgent . . . Rush’s Rising is a revelation. . . . The project of Rising, like the project of Matthew Desmond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, is to draw attention to ongoing material crisis through the stories of the people who are surviving within it. Rising is a clarion call. The idea isn’t merely that climate change is here and scary. There’s a more important message: There are people out here who need help.”―Pacific Standard“A sobering, elegant look at rising waters, climate change, and how low lying areas and the vulnerable people who live in those areas are at risk.”—Roxane Gay, author of Hunger, via Goodreads“Rush’s innovative, brave Rising [is] about the changing coastlines of America in a time of climate breakdown, and part of a growing wave of what might be called Anthropocene non-fiction, seeking to find a form for the challenges of our epoch. . . . [Rising] will stay long with me.”—Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland“Really powerful . . . An exciting book not only because it has these really compelling stories about American climate refugees and people whose lives have already been disrupted by rising seas and other climate catastrophes, but also [Rush is] trying to see if there’s a way that creative nonfiction can convey this problem. . . . I had to read it slowly, but I paid close attention, and I felt sort of spiritually nourished by the experience.”—Claire Vaye Watkins, Los Angeles Review of Books“Timely and urgent, this report on how climate change is affecting American shorelines provides critical evidence of the devastating changes already faced by some coastal dwellers. Rush masterfully presents firsthand accounts of these changes, acknowledging her own privileged position in comparison to most of her interviewees and the heavy responsibility involved in relaying their experiences to an audience. . . . In the midst of a highly politicized debate on climate change and how to deal with its far-reaching effects, this book deserves to be read by all.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Rush traffics only sparingly in doomsday statistics. For Rush, the devastating impact of rising sea levels, especially on vulnerable communities, is more compellingly found in the details. From Louisiana to Staten Island to the Bay Area, Rush’s lyrical, deeply reported essays challenge us to accept the uncertainty of our present climate and to consider more just ways of dealing with the immense challenges ahead.”―The Nation“[Rush’s] work does something that other superb science writing on climate change does not: It brings a poetic feeling and personal narrative to the subject. Her warm and informed presence is felt throughout Rising—a reminder that now more than ever we need the storytelling skills of nature writers to engage people and change policies given these pressing environmental times.”—Kathryn Aalto, BuzzFeed (“11 Women Who Have Changed the Way We See the Natural World”)“In this moving and memorable book, the voice of the author mingles with the voices of people in coastal communities all over the country—Maine, Rhode Island, Louisiana, Florida, New York, California—to offer testimony: The water is rising. Some have already lost their homes; some will soon; others are studying or watching or grieving. Though they haven’t met each other, their commonality forms a circle into which we are inexorably pulled by Rush’s powerful words.”—Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down“A poetic meditation on the nature of change, on how people can make peace with a changing world and our agency in it . . . Rising [offers] pulsing, gleaming prose and a stubborn search for, if not hope, then peace in the face of disaster.”―Shelf Awareness“The strength of [Rising] lies not only in the pulse and momentum of her prose but in the relationships she built while writing it: relationships with scientists and with the many people whose homes are already underwater. Rush is an unusually courageous individual, and the book reverberates with heart. It helps us both to grapple with the mourning we must do as the holocene crumbles around us, and to do the radical work of imagining a way forward.”—Michigan Quarterly Review“Rush rises. She brings stories out of the woodwork, revealing the true effect of sea level rise on the land, on the sea, and on people. She writes from a generation not asking if climate change is true or not, but how to live in the face of it, how we adapt, lose, or gain. Logging the finest, most intuitive details, Rush holds her subjects in tight focus, each coastline conveyed down to its grains of sand and inflections in the tides. Her writing is present among relocations and dying swamps, conveying the intricate nature of sea level rise. How do levees work? What does saltwater do to a freshwater aquifer? What voices are coming out of the wrack line, and what does it sound like as a coast is rewritten? Rush makes real a monolithic subject often too large to digest. You can taste the coming salt.”—Craig Childs, author of The Animal Dialogues“Rising is not just a book about rising sea levels and the lost habitats and homes—it’s also a moving rumination on the rise of women as investigative reporters, the rise of tangible solutions, the rise of human endeavor and flexibility. It is also a rising of unheard voices; one of the eloquent beauties of this book is the inclusion of various stories, Studs Terkel–style, of those affected most by our changing shoreline. A beautiful and tender account of what’s happening—and what’s in store.”—Laura Pritchett, author of Stars Go Blue“From the edges of our continent, where sea level rise is already well underway, Rush lays bare the often hidden effects of climate change—lost homes, lost habitats, broken family ties, chronic fear and worry—and shows us how those effects ripple toward us all. With elegance, intelligence, and guts, she guides us through one of the most frightening and complex issues of our time.”—Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved BeastsTable of ContentsCast of Characters 1Prologue 5 ACT ONEPart One | Departures 13Part Two | Stalled 43Part Three | First Passage 61 ACT TWOPart One | Into the Ice 97Part Two | Islands 119Part Three | Between the Past and the Future 163 ACT THREEPart One | Arrival 197Part Two | Nameless Bay 213Part Three | Underneath 247 ACT FOURPart One | The Quickening 277Part Two | Holding Season 299Part Three | Going to Pieces 323 Epilogue 345Notes 359 Acknowledgments 392

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Book SynopsisExplores capitalism’s role in creating the current state of climate emergency Over the last 11,700 years, during which human civilization developed, the earth has existed within what geologists refer to as the Holocene Epoch. Now science is telling us that the Holocene Epoch in the geological time scale ended, replaced by a new more dangerous Anthropocene Epoch, which began around 1950. The Anthropocene Epoch is characterized by an “anthropogenic rift” in the biological cycles of the Earth System, marking a changed reality in which human activities are now the main geological force impacting the earth as a whole, generating at the same time an existential crisis for the world’s population. What caused this massive shift in the history of the earth? In this comprehensive study, John Bellamy Foster tells us that a globalized system of capital accumulation has induced humanity to foul its own nest. The result is a planetary emergency that threatens all present and future generations, throwing into question the continuation of civilization and ultimately the very survival of humanity itself. Only by addressing the social aspects of the current planetary emergency, exploring the theoretical, historical, and practical dimensions of the capitalism’s alteration of the planetary environment, is it possible to develop the ecological and social resources for a new journey of hope.Trade ReviewJohn Bellamy Foster has returned Marxism to a serious and sincere engagement with nature. He is as adept at navigating the latest scientific literature as he is comfortable with the immense body of Marxist theory. JBF is a key reference for the elaboration of our political struggles and for the expansion of our political imagination. -- " Vijay Prashad, Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research"

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Book SynopsisClimate change was political long before Al Gore first started talking about it. In the 1970s, the Swedish Social Democrats used global warming to get political support for building a string of nuclear power stations. It was the second phase of their war on coal, which began with the acid rain scare and the first big UN environment conference in Stockholm in 1969.Acid rain swept all before it. America held out for as long as Ronald Reagan was in the White House, but capitulated under his successor. Like global warming, acid rain had the vocal support of the scientific establishment, but the consensus science collapsed just as Congress was passing acid rain cap-and-trade legislation. Rather than tell legislators and the nation the truth, the EPA attacked a lead scientist and suppressed the federal report showing that the scientific case for action on curbing power station emissions was baseless.Ostensibly neutral in the Cold War, Sweden had a secret military alliance with Washington. A hero of the international Left, Sweden's Olof Palme used environmentalism to maintain a precarious balance between East and West. Thus Stockholm was the conduit for the KGB-inspired nuclear winter scare. The bait was taken by Carl Sagan and leading scientists, who tried to undermine Ronald Reagan's nuclear strategy and acted as propaganda tools to end the Cold War on Moscow's terms.Nuclear energy was to have been the solution to global warming. It didn't turn out that way, most of all thanks to Germany. Instead America and the world are following Germany's lead in embracing wind and solar. German obsession with renewable energy originates deep within its culture. Few know today that the Nazis were the first political party to champion wind power, Hitler calling wind the energy of the future.Post-1945 West Germany appeared normal, but anti-nuclear protests in the 1970s led to the fusion of extreme Left and Right and the birth of the Greens in 1980. Their rise changed Germany, then Europe and now the world. Radical environmentalism became mainstream. It demands more than the rejection of the abundant hydrocarbon energy that fuels American greatness. It requires the suppression of dissent.

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Book SynopsisThe risks of global warming are real, and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, and possibly insurmountable. So there is an urgent need for new thinking on climate change. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists is exploring proposals for planned human intervention in the climate system. A stratospheric veil against the sun; the cultivation of photosynthetic plankton; a fleet of unmanned ships seeding clouds: these are the radical technologies of climate geoengineering. It is chilling to think of such power, and such scope for misadventure or malice, in humans hands. And yet we are now at the point where we have no choice but to take them very seriously indeed. The Planet Remade explores the science, history and politics behind these strategies. It looks at who might want to see geoengineering put to use - and why others would be dead set against it. In the last two centuries, changes to the planet - to the clouds and soils, to the winds and the seas, to the great cycles of nitrogen and carbon - have been far more profound than most of us realize. Appreciating the scale of that change compels us to rethink not just our responses to global warming, but our relationship to nature. With sensitivity, insight and expert science, Oliver Morton unpicks the moral implications of climate change, our fear that people have become a force of nature, and what it might mean to try and use that force for good. The Planet Remade is about imagining a world where people take care instead of taking control.

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Book SynopsisAn essential introduction to the surprisingly long history of the electric car, from the early pioneers, through to the first commercially viable marques such as Tesla. After a century in the shadow of the internal combustion engine, the electric motor is making a seismic comeback. Battery-propelled vehicles in fact predate petrol and diesel engines; indeed, in the Edwardian era, electric vehicles could well have become the dominant form of transport. While limitations to their range and speed meant that fossil-fuelled cars rapidly left them behind, since the 1970s there have been several efforts to revive electric cars, and with recent carbon emissions commitments, offerings such as the Tesla Model 3 and Nissan Leaf have been well received. This fully illustrated introduction explains these developments, charting the most notable electric cars, from the eccentric Amitron and Zagato Zele to the now-mainstream models that are set to dominate the market, such as the BMW i3 and Renault Zoe.Table of ContentsEarly Days Insufficient Interest Resurgence of Interest Marking Time: 1980–1999 The Hybrid Option Modern Times Further Reading Places to Visit Index

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